Again, Admin Opening Tongass National Forest...
To loggers, oil companies, miners... Tell me fellow RVers that you are not ok with this.
Forum Discussion
Tom/Barb wrote:beemerphile1 wrote:
National Forests are not National Parks. National Forests have always been mined, timber cut, drilled, you name it. The directive of National Forests is asset management, NOT preservation.
Like it or not, that is the way it has always been.
Most here don't realize the size of the Tongass national forest. It really is the majority of Southeast Alaska, and contains several national parks like Misty Fjord, Glacier Bay and other not so well known. It is in fact the coastal mountain range and is very steep slopes.
What logging has been done has been with heavy lift helos, not trucks. most logging camps are barges, not a clearing some place.
They remove trees in pieces, not whole logs.
I worked several years maintaining the aircraft, and living in the camps.
You have listed some National Monuments, not Parks. I have never seen loggers "remove trees in pieces, not logs." Please explain.
