I can sum up logging in one sentence instead of wasting
paragraph after paragraph after paragraph on it as you do on
your page:

1. Logging is the conversion of a real estate holding
(standing trees) to a personal property holding (logs).

Your ideas on how fungi and other tree parasites are
legitimate, but breifly scanning the intro, there seems to
be a trend to forget that humans are part of the ecology
too! The role we play is the top predator, and are able to
make decisions regarding values on the land as to whether a
tree should go or should stay based on many facets. Many
times we happen to consider standing trees as timber having
a higher value than that of sustaining the life of higher
populations of specific fungi and organisms that are tree
munchers, other times we don't. It wouldn't even be
reasonable to lock up the federal forests from logging, as
that was not what those forests lands were provided for in
the first place, but rather what wilderness is available
for. We already have ample wilderness in this country -
that is a value judgement of course, however based on
logic. Logic tells me that there is no man living a humans
life time that could walk every acre of wilderness in this
country.

Please keep human kind in mind when you consider what "else"
logging is.

Geoff Kegerreis

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