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profdant139
Explorer II
Sep 04, 2019

Seeking expert opinion: thinning vs prescribed burns

Almost all of us on this forum are avid users of the national forests. Some of us favor extensive logging. Some of us don't want the forest altered in any way. I understand both of those positions....
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agesilaus
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Sep 06, 2019
Supposedly the original forests on the continent were such that settlers could drive their teams and wagons easily in between trees. Of course those trees were behemoths. And I've read that uncut tropical rain forests are somewhat similar.

On the east coast you can see a small patch of original forest at Joyce Kilmer park near the GSMNP. It's south of the NP. It is steep landscape which explains the tree's survival. It has 5 and 6 ft diameter trees tho. Joyce Kilmer Memorial Forest

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