Kentucky Residents Angered by U.S. Forest Service Logging Plan That Targets Mature Trees
Kentucky Residents Angered by US Forest Service Logging Plan That Targets Mature Trees
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Kentucky Residents Angered by U.S. Forest Service Logging Plan That Targets Mature Trees
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They want to cut 800 acres a year for 40 years.
They want to use herbicides.
The logging of the trees is the part that might be Corrupt.
They did the same thing in North Carolina Pisgah Forest as well. As expected most comments were against the proposed increase in logging and yet they are allowing it in old growth portions.
https://www.citizen-times.com/story/news/local/2022/08/02/asheville-rally-us-forest-service-hq-protests-protect-pisgah-plan/10205756002/
Being a steward of any forest requires the harvesting of all ages of trees. Old growth is definitely a fire hazard having the most snarls and under growth not to mention diseases. This is 800 acres per year in a 708,000 acre national forest. That’s 1/10th of a percent. The health of the other 99.9% trees is dependent on a good forest management plan to sustain itself for centuries to come.
There is definitely a role for logging in the southeast where forests have overtaken the historical grasslands but logging old-growth (exceptionally rare) in places where those forests belong is motivated by profit and the habitat argument is fraud. The southeast is full of young forest, it doesn’t need to be created out of old-growth, which is irreplaceable.
Where is Biden? Hello? This directly contradicts your promise to protect old growth forests. Let’s see if your executive order was just grandstanding.