Sometime we win...National Forests and Wildlife Refuge

rexlion wrote:

4runnerguy wrote:
Clear cutting is not only unsightly, it has adverse effects on wildlife including game animals like deer and elk and also results in degradation of fisheries.

True, but I can't tell from the linked article whether clear cutting was the intended logging method. Thinning the trees by taking out some of a certain size is another common practice.

Open forests are the only ones that have an understory with shrub, forbs and grasses for forage for wildlife. On the West Side the canopy tends to be closed with little understory except for various species of trees. Ask any elk or deer hunter, where they like to hunt. The answer is always the same, old clearcuts.