re: #138 wrenchwench

I didn’t say nuthin’ about Old Growth.

That’s what the logging projects are— they’re about logging the old-growth. That’s what environmentalists object to.

Commercial logging has no place in fire prevention. In isolated cases, where, as you say, we need to play catch-up because we haven’t let the natural fire cycle take place in decades, we need to remove fuel— but that’s almost all the deadfall, the brush, and very little of the actual trees. Where it is the actual trees, it’s generally because of a legacy of clearcutting, which is where you get trees growing up crowded against each other.

Commercial loggers are not interested in the small trees, and the lawsuits filed to stop commercial logging have nothing to do with the hazardous fuel removal efforts, as the article I cited shows.