From what I have seen, forest management is taking a short term view of thinning.
They go thru and remove all of the small trees, leaving just the large ones.
The public is OK with it, as they like the big trees.
I wonder what it will look like when those big trees die. There are no smaller trees in the pipeline to take their place.
A more sustainable approach would be to thin removing trees of all sizes.. Keeping in mind that the reason mother nature allows so many small trees to sprout, is that few of them will live long enough to become the large trees we all like to see.
