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White House to lift logging ban
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[QUOTE="HobRoff, post: 798986, member: 46302"] I would encourage everyone to oppose this ruling. The reason being is it is pretty much pointless to be accessing these remote areas while the Forest Service is sitting on countless acres of mature second growth that are already roaded and could be harvested. There is usually a pretty evident reason why these areas were not accessed in the first place, many being of low commercial value. What needs to happen is an aggressive management program to inventory these existing stands, maybe some along the fringes of these roadless areas, identify the ones that can handle intensive forestry and those that are too sensitive i.e little topsoil, endangered species, watershed etc and start getting some sales on the bid block and somehow block the silly bureaucratic rules and enviro lawsuits, if you revoke the roadless area rule lawsuits will start coming like buckshot and it will be years before anything of value comes along, talk about stirring up the pot and pushing peoples buttons, it is already a mess just trying to get a sale through now. From the Cascade Crest to the East slope of the Rockies the art of Forestry takes on whole other perspective as generally is it is very hot and dry and things take twice as long to grow and recover from logging operations, you have to be pretty conscientous and light handed and having worked throughout the West I have seen very little progressive land management, it has been simply mining/high grading out the best and leaving the rest. The State of Colorado for instance has no Forest Practices to dictate some basic stewardship principals, at least they didn't a few years ago. This is a complicated issue no doubt and people dedicate their lives to ensure wood will keep flowing out of the woods only to be stubbed by Politicians, Corporate room dictates and rebels without a clue, it gets really aggravating. But we keep plugging along. I guess a good analogy here is the whole ANWR debate, drilling in ANWR is the stupid, lazy man's solution. In the lower 48 we have thousands of shut in wells of marginal production but new technologies exist that may allow bringing them back on line, also exploration for new oil/gas sites should not be hampered in the lower 48, to the west of ANWR and Prudhoe bay is the National Petroleum Reserve with existing leases in place. The basic fact is we do not need to enter ANWR at this time, same goes for the bulk of these roadless areas, it is just a quick and easy buck with development and ramification costs that we really don't have a handle on. I have never worked in the East or SouthEast but hats off to those guys working in the woods back there, it is a different ball game. Growing trees and harvesting timber - probably one of the most environmentally benign things people should be doing but there is little reason to enter these roadless areas. [/QUOTE]
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