rost:
For as long as I can remember, I have been a proponent of conservation (wise use) rather than preservation (no use). But clear cutting just seems to go too far. All over the states of Washington and Oregon there are clear cuts on private land owned by the big lumber companies. Ugly scars that are cleverly hidden just over the ridge, so that most people don't know that they exist.
My state of Colorado seems to be less eager to allow clear cuts. Yes there is an occasional clear cut but they are small, isolated and intended to create a meadow where none existied before. Most of the logging in Colorado is selective cutting which takes only the oldest trees and allows younger trees to thrive. Fire mitigation is also a part of the selective cutting here.
I hope that the Tongas and Chugas don't suffer the fate of Washington and Oregon.
