profdant139 wrote:
I wonder if thinning can be paid for by the value of the timber removed?? And maybe also some money can be set aside for mitigating or repairing the damage done by the logging equipment?
I am revealing my ignorance here!! ;)
Probably could if it was done with heavy equipment. Can you imagine what would happen if busloads of tourists find huge tractors and such cutting down 90% of trees alongside the road at Bryce, Yellowstone, Yosemite or any of most other National parks??
"Mommy, Mommy why are they hurting the park?"
Sending hordes of men in to do it tree by tree and brush by brush just cannot be cost effective. And even that could not be done in a NP without screams of outrage. Maybe they could leave a strip of untouched woods in public views. But roads would have to be cut and so on. You'd have to start by firing 75% of NPS personnel.
