Environmentalists Score A Victory!

That part of Vancouver Island is certainly an awe-inspiring section of forest!

My wife and I had the great pleasure of touring BC for two weeks a couple of years ago and we are looking forward towards the time when we can manage a more extended visit.

We are certainly glad that none of those gigantic trees will be felled for a parking lot......insanity has been curbed.

Congrats to the conservationists.

H.F. Wolff

The key is who had the contract lined up to cut the trees down and pocket the lumber money....lol.

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People who openly hate America, while making money from America, burning U.S. flags, waving Mexican and Jamaican flags, while demanding the right to be American

I'm from the area. I'm glad you didn't see the "unseen". Millions of hecters are clearcut but stanches left where the public can see. All along the highways appear to be prestine forest, yet only a few meters beyond, is nothing but stumps and weeds. Mountains have been shaved on the unseen side and so have areas not accessible by public highways.

YET, I consider my home (Vancouver Island) still one of the most beautiful places on earth. It's best to not look at what you don't want to see.

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Expect little from life and get more from it.

Forests are the lungs of the earth, and indiscriminate razing of forests is at least partly to blame for the reduction in air quality and global warming.

Be that as it may, intelligent managing of forests is necessary if the waste of wild fires, as has occurred in the BC interior, is to be curtailed.

Forest fires are one step in the natural evolution of forests: the forest matures and then burns. It's been like that for eons.

Intelligent management will curtail this wasteful use of forests (burning) by harvesting the trees before they burn.

It should be obvious that the wholesale deforesting of huge swaths of land is destructive; the art of managing is to keep the size of harvested areas as small as practicable, going as far as cutting individual trees in the forest.

This methodology makes the forests sustainable indefinitely while providing economic benefits such as timber, clean air, reduced surface temperatures, reduced flooding, recreational areas, home for wild life, or just a plain inspirational environment for stressed-out city-slickers, etc. etc.

With intelligent forest management everybody wins. If, however, the powers-that-be kowtow to the tree-huggers and leave forests "untouched by human hands" the results are the huge forest fires we have seen in the US and Canada over the last few years. With forest fires everybody loses.

H.F. Wolff

It should be obvious that the wholesale deforesting of huge swaths of land is destructive; the art of managing is to keep the size of harvested areas as small as practicable, going as far as cutting individual trees in the forest.<<

Selective logging don't meet the needs of logging companies. Smaller woodlots are infact logged that way but for direct sale to sawmills. Less profitable but certainly more longevity. Fires can no longer be and as you say a waste. However those fires also take away the weeds temporarly. My woodlot is in an area that was amongst the huge area burned out in 1919. Burned stumps can be seen amongst massive trees. This same property was logged in the fourties. Selective logging, only in the case the desirable wood was only taken. Skidder trails are still evident althoughout and now overgrown by Alder. What was prime Cedar growth is now limited of those trees. I have taken back a large portion of Alder and allowed the Fir & Hemlock to reseed. Natural drainage is gradualy being reinstituted and trees with root rot being thinned out by storms. I will never live to see the result but hope at one time the natural forest from before, will return.


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Expect little from life and get more from it.