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Rob Lewis's avatar

Thanks for this excellent and informative interview. Hanson shows how complex ecosystems are and how simplistic our understanding is. Here in the northwest, clearcutting is still practiced and almost everything has been turned to plantation. The system is drying out and the salmon are dying and everyone blames CO2, with the elephant in the room, "forest management," left out of the picture.

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Stephen Verchinski's avatar

We had thousands upon thousands of acres in the Rocky Mountain Region that died of beetle kill. These areas needed to be cut but the USFS had little funding to do the necessary clearances and so the trees were left standing till they rotted.

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