Thread: Cutting down the forest for the trees
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Old 09-12-2002, 06:45 AM
Larry Caldwell
 
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Default Cutting down the forest for the trees
In article ,
writes:

Anyone who's taken a driving trip out west has seen the way the national
forests are managed there, whole hillsides scalped to the bare earth for mile
after mile and replanted as tree farms.

Obviously, this person has not actually BEEN out west. Most of what I
see on Federal lands are overstocked and unhealthy forests. This
person has to be talking about Pacific Northwest private timber
industry lands. Again, clearcutting (over 5 acres) has been
specifically banned since the early 90's in the USFS Region 5
(California).

I don't know about Washington, but the Oregon Forest Practices Act bans
clear cuts of over 80 acres. That is 1/8 of a square mile. However,
private lands have indeed been replanted as tree farms, because that is
exactly what they are. Federal lands in the PNW are pretty much as you
describe.

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