skinner biscuit wrote: I have no problem with logging.
Neither do I. But there are good ways to go about it and not so good ways. Shaving everything to the ground, then nuking it with chemicals, isn’t necessarily the best way, unless all you care about is maximizing short-term profits.
On the other hand, we’re facing issues in parts of the West where nothing can be logged anymore without the armchair greenies (many of whom have never even been on the ground in these forests) filing multiple lawsuits as soon as any timber sale on public lands is announced – even when its a forest full of beetle kill that will be an inevitable tinder box when something ignites it. In places where the timber is already dead or dying anyway, and we are looking at major fire disasters, and beetles are already rampant, I see no harm in selective logging while the timber can still be put to good use.
I’ve spent a fair bit of time in coastal B.C. and Alaska, and there are many places there where the logging practices that were allowed are nothing short of disgusting, and will not recuperate for a long, long time. But that doesn’t mean it has to be done that way, or that all logging is bad.
