This is making me sick.
I agree with you, we have protected old growth, pristine forest in
Northern
Idaho, what does Bush want to do, allow roads to be build through it.
For what? He says it is to allow fire fighters better access but what he
really wants to do is open the forests to logging.
As we build more roads or fire ditches, we prune tree 3 (see diagram 231).
You can overprune tree 1, and tree 2, and also tree 3. I believe we are
seeing this in our time. What is the solution? Close most of the roads!
One of the biggest parks in Europe is doing just that! So it can be done.
It is a sound treatment for health of a forest or park. Roads change the
pathways of water, allow grass to compete with trees, and disrupt the
mycorrhizae and other tree associates. And when trees get sick, all the
associates of trees also get sick. Ask a koala! See Modern Arboriculture
(the book)
I believe that we have to leave large areas of land undeveloped and
unlogged
for the benefit of the wildlife and plantlife that live there.
I back that up with researchers publications
http://www.treedictionary.com/DICT2003/SOUND/index.html
That is their
home and they need it (habitat) to exist.
Humans wouldn't want someone to destroy their only way to survive!
This entire area (the Northwest) is being destroyed by over development,
we
have bears, moose, cougar, deer and many other creatures coming into the
cities because they have no where else to go. Sometimes they are captured
and released away from the city but usually they are just killed.
Bush believes that the bible "God" gave the Earth to the humans to do with
it as they please.
Bush has no scientist that support commercial logging on federal public
land. Now what faith will win the election? One might ask just what is
meant by cutting the wood out of the once fertile forest.
See "LOGGING - What it is"
http://www.chesco.com/~treeman/sound
for starters
also use
www.treedictionary.com
Ezekiel 39:10 So that they shall take no wood out of the field, neither cut
down any out of the forests; for they shall burn the weapons with fi and
they shall spoil those that spoiled them, and rob those that robbed them,
saith the Lord GOD.
Man's first responsibility was to care for the garden, (Genesis 2-15).
God even cares about the sparrows.
We need to hold on to what we got.
--
Sincerely,
John A. Keslick, Jr.
Tree Biologist
http://www.chesco.com/~treeman
Beware of so-called TREE EXPERTS who do not understand TREE BIOLOGY!
www.treedictionary.com