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Salvage Logging and Reforestration
Compare the two articles/papers here and see what you think.
http://oregonstate.edu/dept/ncs/news...3/biscuit1.htm http://www.fire-ecology.org/science/Beschta_Report.pdf Both are from the University of Oregon. The Beshta report has been around since 1995 and is used to this day as the greens' primary source to appeal/litigate against salvage logging. The "biscuit" article flies in the face of the Beshta report in that it maintains that without rapid reforestration the area will never regenerate into a natural coniferous forest. To accomplish the reforestration salvage logging must take place first. This article dates from this July. Any comments on the two articles or salvage logging in particular? I for one think the Beshta report is 1) outdated; 2) Has applicability mostly for PNW forests and not PP and other dry type forests; 3) Proposes a Utopian approach to forests which just isn't workable or realistic and is wrong, or less than adequate, on other counts as well. |
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Salvage Logging and Reforestration
Compare the two articles/papers here and see what you think. http://oregonstate.edu/dept/ncs/news...3/biscuit1.htm http://www.fire-ecology.org/science/Beschta_Report.pdf Both are from the University of Oregon. The Beshta report has been around since 1995 and is used to this day as the greens' primary source to appeal/litigate against salvage logging. The "biscuit" article flies in the face of the Beshta report in that it maintains that without rapid reforestration the area will never regenerate into a natural coniferous forest. To accomplish the reforestration salvage logging must take place first. This article dates from this July. Any comments on the two articles or salvage logging in particular? I for one think the Beshta report is 1) outdated; 2) Has applicability mostly for PNW forests and not PP and other dry type forests; 3) Proposes a Utopian approach to forests which just isn't workable or realistic and is wrong, or less than adequate, on other counts as well. Looks like a news opinion piece to me in which profit slavage cutting is the main objective! Excerpt: "Weeds, shrubs and hardwoods will soon overwhelm this land, insect infestations will build in fire-injured trees and the value of salvage logging will evaporate, erasing an opportunity to defray some of the enormous costs involved." Werll, then according to the article warm times are here that won't support such a forest = so why replant = obviously you replant you genetically modified tress that grow fast = Hardly a forest replacment! It also makes assumptions about the climate of the 1700's that is in doubt and would not, in any case, explain the forst here before the 1700's! |
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Salvage Logging and Reforestration
Aozotorp wrote:
Compare the two articles/papers here and see what you think. http://oregonstate.edu/dept/ncs/news...3/biscuit1.htm http://www.fire-ecology.org/science/Beschta_Report.pdf Both are from the University of Oregon. The Beshta report has been around since 1995 and is used to this day as the greens' primary source to appeal/litigate against salvage logging. The "biscuit" article flies in the face of the Beshta report in that it maintains that without rapid reforestration the area will never regenerate into a natural coniferous forest. To accomplish the reforestration salvage logging must take place first. This article dates from this July. Any comments on the two articles or salvage logging in particular? I for one think the Beshta report is 1) outdated; 2) Has applicability mostly for PNW forests and not PP and other dry type forests; 3) Proposes a Utopian approach to forests which just isn't workable or realistic and is wrong, or less than adequate, on other counts as well. Looks like a news opinion piece to me in which profit slavage cutting is the main objective! Excerpt: "Weeds, shrubs and hardwoods will soon overwhelm this land, insect infestations will build in fire-injured trees and the value of salvage logging will evaporate, erasing an opportunity to defray some of the enormous costs involved." Werll, then according to the article warm times are here that won't support such a forest = so why replant = obviously you replant you genetically modified tress that grow fast = Hardly a forest replacment! It also makes assumptions about the climate of the 1700's that is in doubt and would not, in any case, explain the forst here before the 1700's! Strangely, I pretty much agree with Torp. The difference in management between wilderness and working forest seems to escape the author of article #1, as well as the fact that any old growth forest is a patchwork of all ages, all of which found a twenty year period sometime in the past which was favorable to regeneration. The parts of the burn which are economically feasible and outside the wilderness area should of course be considered for harvest and planting. Those areas inside the wilderness should be considered for restoration - a job which has been going on since it was cool enough to work there. As I recall, much of the Kalmiopsis was always brushy, full of poison oak and had lots of "balds" where the mineral content of the soil was so hostile to trees that it dwarfed them. That's why it was picked as a place worth preserving. |
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Salvage Logging and Reforestration
Though not an opinion piece it certainly is written in a "press
release" style. I have requested a URL for the actual report from OSU and if I get it I will post it. If the "press release" accurratly reflects the report then there are differences among the scientists at OSU over salvage logging generally. mike hagen wrote in message ... Aozotorp wrote: Compare the two articles/papers here and see what you think. http://oregonstate.edu/dept/ncs/news...3/biscuit1.htm http://www.fire-ecology.org/science/Beschta_Report.pdf Both are from the University of Oregon. The Beshta report has been around since 1995 and is used to this day as the greens' primary source to appeal/litigate against salvage logging. The "biscuit" article flies in the face of the Beshta report in that it maintains that without rapid reforestration the area will never regenerate into a natural coniferous forest. To accomplish the reforestration salvage logging must take place first. This article dates from this July. Any comments on the two articles or salvage logging in particular? I for one think the Beshta report is 1) outdated; 2) Has applicability mostly for PNW forests and not PP and other dry type forests; 3) Proposes a Utopian approach to forests which just isn't workable or realistic and is wrong, or less than adequate, on other counts as well. Looks like a news opinion piece to me in which profit slavage cutting is the main objective! Excerpt: "Weeds, shrubs and hardwoods will soon overwhelm this land, insect infestations will build in fire-injured trees and the value of salvage logging will evaporate, erasing an opportunity to defray some of the enormous costs involved." Werll, then according to the article warm times are here that won't support such a forest = so why replant = obviously you replant you genetically modified tress that grow fast = Hardly a forest replacment! It also makes assumptions about the climate of the 1700's that is in doubt and would not, in any case, explain the forst here before the 1700's! Strangely, I pretty much agree with Torp. The difference in management between wilderness and working forest seems to escape the author of article #1, as well as the fact that any old growth forest is a patchwork of all ages, all of which found a twenty year period sometime in the past which was favorable to regeneration. The parts of the burn which are economically feasible and outside the wilderness area should of course be considered for harvest and planting. Those areas inside the wilderness should be considered for restoration - a job which has been going on since it was cool enough to work there. As I recall, much of the Kalmiopsis was always brushy, full of poison oak and had lots of "balds" where the mineral content of the soil was so hostile to trees that it dwarfed them. That's why it was picked as a place worth preserving. |
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