Again, Admin Opening Tongass National Forest...

Yosemite Sam1 wrote:
Here is the difference between forest management and logging.

Big Bear had beetle infestations and trees had to be harvested. Locals were edged and dead trees had to be felled and cut into pieces either for woodworking or fire logs.

In a fire in Olympic peninsula, the logging unit engaged said selectively harvesting won’t be profitable. So they are allowed clear cutting to include living trees and those that impede their access. Results, massive landslide and contaminated stream and destroyed watersheds.

No, that is forest mis-management, and no fire in the park was blamed on the logging operations.

In this state many millions of acres are leased to tree farmers, you do not see any fires in tree farms because trees are money, there is no slash on the forest floor, trees are trimmed up to where there are no branches to support fire pluming thru the forest canopy, thus any fire that starts simply creeps along the forest floor doing mothers nature's work.

Were the DNR to practice the same methods as the tree farmers there would be no major wild fires.
Right now as we type this, the Methow Valley forests from the pass to Winthrop has 4 feet of dry slash on the forest floor, over half of trees are dead standing. and DNR will do nothing.