Rollins issued the Secretarial Memo in response to a directive from Trump to increase U.S. timber production by 25%. 112,646,000 acres, 59% of U.S. Forest Service land, are at risk.
We could start building smaller houses instead of robbing our grandchildren of forests, which are give us oxygen. We could grow hemp for building and paper.
Written by clueless city people who know nothing about forestry, or what it takes to keep a forest healthy. Where I live, trees are growing and adding flammable wood to the ecosystems far, far faster than they are being removed. And we've had devastating wildfires near me every summer for the past several years.
This is a common-sense measure on the Trump administration's part.
You demonstrate that cluelessness about forests (rather than forestry which has long been little more than the study of removing trees from forests) isn't restricted to urbanites.
Here's a a very basic primer fer ya from westerner with 5+ decades of professional experience and education in wildlands.
-Forests burn when it's hot and dry enough.
-Weather is a far greater influence on fire occurrence and spread than "fuels"
-Forests are much more than a collection of trees and trees are much more than fuels
You use "common sense" as many do these days--as a catch all justification for a proposal which lacks any sound factual basis.
At any rate, history demonstrates that sense has never been common and the trump admin yahoos wouldn't know anything making actual sense if it sneezed all over 'em.
Mostly, if you trust the "common sense" of the Trump administration, you haven't been paying attention. He's the true city boy. If you want to wreck the Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, and NEPA, you are out of touch with the vast, vast, vast majority of Americans.
I didn't respond earlier because any self-described "old mountain man" is just looking for attention. But I have spent most of life burning wood, cutting wood, building things out of wood, etc. I am not opposed to active forest management. And I'm definitely rural. Grew up on a farm. Farmed myself for years. Built my own house. Have worked in forestry a lot.
Dude, I live in a forest. Grew up next to one. Worked in the woods. Married a logger’s daughter.
I, too, once believed the environmentalist religion. Until I was confronted by reality.
Come over here and visit me. I’ll show you unmanaged forests that will go up like a roman candy at the next lightning strike. I’ll show you other, properly logged forests that will survive.
Also, if you want to have a contest on saw chain sharpening, post hole digging, log peeling, wood splitting, and directional felling of trees I'm in. I can hold my own and then some on these tasks instead of hiding behind "you're not rural" bs.
Excellent points all around. The Tongass roadless rule is certainly on the attempted chopping block list, and logging companies, drillers, and miners "like" to leave pollution and public health messes as their legacies. Thanks for the comment.
These people have no soul and someday they will pay for it
We could start building smaller houses instead of robbing our grandchildren of forests, which are give us oxygen. We could grow hemp for building and paper.
Shame on her!!
Bye bye trees. :(
The planet is on life support. Any further destruction of natural resources, habitat, wildlife, is a call to arms 🤬
Written by clueless city people who know nothing about forestry, or what it takes to keep a forest healthy. Where I live, trees are growing and adding flammable wood to the ecosystems far, far faster than they are being removed. And we've had devastating wildfires near me every summer for the past several years.
This is a common-sense measure on the Trump administration's part.
You demonstrate that cluelessness about forests (rather than forestry which has long been little more than the study of removing trees from forests) isn't restricted to urbanites.
Here's a a very basic primer fer ya from westerner with 5+ decades of professional experience and education in wildlands.
-Forests burn when it's hot and dry enough.
-Weather is a far greater influence on fire occurrence and spread than "fuels"
-Forests are much more than a collection of trees and trees are much more than fuels
You use "common sense" as many do these days--as a catch all justification for a proposal which lacks any sound factual basis.
At any rate, history demonstrates that sense has never been common and the trump admin yahoos wouldn't know anything making actual sense if it sneezed all over 'em.
Mostly, if you trust the "common sense" of the Trump administration, you haven't been paying attention. He's the true city boy. If you want to wreck the Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, and NEPA, you are out of touch with the vast, vast, vast majority of Americans.
Yes, he’s a city boy. Which is why I didn’t expect anything out of him.
He surprised me. He gets it.
And no, I am NOT out of touch with the vast majority of Americans. They voted for this.
YOU are the one out of touch.
I didn't respond earlier because any self-described "old mountain man" is just looking for attention. But I have spent most of life burning wood, cutting wood, building things out of wood, etc. I am not opposed to active forest management. And I'm definitely rural. Grew up on a farm. Farmed myself for years. Built my own house. Have worked in forestry a lot.
Dude, I live in a forest. Grew up next to one. Worked in the woods. Married a logger’s daughter.
I, too, once believed the environmentalist religion. Until I was confronted by reality.
Come over here and visit me. I’ll show you unmanaged forests that will go up like a roman candy at the next lightning strike. I’ll show you other, properly logged forests that will survive.
Also, if you want to have a contest on saw chain sharpening, post hole digging, log peeling, wood splitting, and directional felling of trees I'm in. I can hold my own and then some on these tasks instead of hiding behind "you're not rural" bs.
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Excellent points all around. The Tongass roadless rule is certainly on the attempted chopping block list, and logging companies, drillers, and miners "like" to leave pollution and public health messes as their legacies. Thanks for the comment.