Again, Admin Opening Tongass National Forest...
To loggers, oil companies, miners... Tell me fellow RVers that you are not ok with this.
Forum Discussion
Forest management requires thinning and logging. On the West Side of the Cascades, and the Oly Pen, clearcutting is totally acceptable because the timber species are shade intolerant.
Mangement requries controlling the spacing in a forest. That takes logging of not only dead trees but live trees. It is not remotely practical to treat a National Forest of millions of acres of remote country like a tree farm. There is no such thing as limbing trees in a National Forest or cleaning up the slash except by burning it after a logging operation.
The Tongass is wetter than even the Olympics. Fire is not an issue. Remoteness and lack of access is a big issue. Helicopter logging is very expensive and normally only used for high value species like western red cedar or yellow cedar.
Logs are normally bucked in the woods or on a landing into 16 or 32 foot lengths plus some trim no matter how they are harvested.
Mangement requries controlling the spacing in a forest. That takes logging of not only dead trees but live trees. It is not remotely practical to treat a National Forest of millions of acres of remote country like a tree farm. There is no such thing as limbing trees in a National Forest or cleaning up the slash except by burning it after a logging operation.
The Tongass is wetter than even the Olympics. Fire is not an issue. Remoteness and lack of access is a big issue. Helicopter logging is very expensive and normally only used for high value species like western red cedar or yellow cedar.
Logs are normally bucked in the woods or on a landing into 16 or 32 foot lengths plus some trim no matter how they are harvested.
