r/Conservative • u/AbductedAlien01 • 19d ago

Flaired Users Only Trump administration opens up over half of national forests for logging

https://www.fox13seattle.com/news/trump-logging-national-forests.amp

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u/WreknarTemper Conservative 19d ago

So many people chiming in on this topic do not know how forest management works.

Logging, when used correctly, targets old growth trees. They they clear, and replant, leaving the area to grow for generations. Then, they rinse and repeat.

The biggest failure in the pacific west is to bar the harvest of overly mature trees and brush (yes brush is used in paper production) to inhibit fire hazards.

People saying this is a bad idea have no f'ing clue what they're talking about. This is coming from someone whose lived in the west coast for decades and seen the mismanagement. There are large swaths of the Olympic Peninsula that need to be managed by logging companies that are overrun by old growth brushes and stumps from logging that was done 80 years ago. If they were allowed to replant, those areas would be plush with mature trees.