Trees and intact forests cool their surroundings, nurture water cycles, filter our water and prevent flooding and drought. Nonetheless we are ready to sacrifice our forests for “renewable energy.”
Thank you for your writing Hart. I agree entirely your narrative about forests for biomass and short cycle logging. I live adjacent to a 12,000 acre commercial forest. There was very little 'waste wood' at a recent 200 acre clear cut. Hauled out to the chipper and home heating.
My property is a woodlot adjacent to this tract. The trees were 50 when i moved in and I have heated my house and made lumber for my house oonly from fallen and dead trees. I sold cords when i needed grocery money. Now i continue to live in closed canopy douglas fir and cedar forest and the trees are 110.
This forest adjacent management changed about 40 years ago. I think they should do more like wildlife enhancement and secondary forest products and ecological forestry. Short cycle logging on private land other side of the mountain has to stop.
The farmlands you say should be using restoration agriculture that support farmers. Yet you want to close the forest to capture carbon. Not fair, what about us forest people?
Thank you for your writing Hart. I agree entirely your narrative about forests for biomass and short cycle logging. I live adjacent to a 12,000 acre commercial forest. There was very little 'waste wood' at a recent 200 acre clear cut. Hauled out to the chipper and home heating.
My property is a woodlot adjacent to this tract. The trees were 50 when i moved in and I have heated my house and made lumber for my house oonly from fallen and dead trees. I sold cords when i needed grocery money. Now i continue to live in closed canopy douglas fir and cedar forest and the trees are 110.
This forest adjacent management changed about 40 years ago. I think they should do more like wildlife enhancement and secondary forest products and ecological forestry. Short cycle logging on private land other side of the mountain has to stop.
The farmlands you say should be using restoration agriculture that support farmers. Yet you want to close the forest to capture carbon. Not fair, what about us forest people?
Best to you.
So true and so comprehensive! Thank you Hart!