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This is a really great post!!!
posted by
MiaElla
on October 31, 2006 at 3:48 PM
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Blanche and Strat - clear cutting is very stark when you see it. But I
want my wood as much as anyone else. Wood products are available now that incorporate what would otherwise be waste. Also we need to get away from the notion of paper bags and disposable wood based containers like crates and cardboard boxes. The problem with this however is the expense of buying and tracking reusable containers. We'll always have the trees for low grade wood, its the run of from their production that hurts us most.
posted by
FreeManWalking
on October 26, 2006 at 8:17 AM
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As a part time timber farmer,
I deplore clear cutting. It is an abomination, and lousy on the environment. My family has always done rotation, much like crop rotation, so that you don't denude the land all at once, the habitat remains, the replanted trees have a better shot at growing up, and we have more staggered crops for later down the line.
I am not against the lumber industry -- pine trees put me through college -- but there is a right way and a wrong way. Clear cutting thousands of acres is no different than, say, strip mining the tops of mountains.
posted by
strat
on October 26, 2006 at 8:07 AM
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It breaks my heart to drive through the Olympic Peninsula, Freemanwalking
I never really knew it before the clear-cutting, but I can only imagine. Seeing these magnificent trees just razed to the ground it hurts. I'll look for that book, it sounds fascinating.
posted by
Blanche.
on October 26, 2006 at 8:00 AM
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