The Forest Service has been actively deconstructing roads for the past decade and we always said there was going to be a price paid for that.
Some of that is a good thing if one likes salmon.
hard to get some groups on with the fact that a clearcut can be a good thing. Get in there, get the cut done, put the road to bed.
Roads left in, without maintenance like clearing culverts and such, fail and impact streams in pretty serious way, especially in areas with heavy winter rains. Just the time salmon are spawning or have spawned and eggs are in the redds.
Again, this is a money thing. No one wants to pay for the upkeep of those roads. But they want the roads open for recreational use and fire breaks. If the try to sell some timber to cover it, it gets tied up in court suits.
fugged up situation all the way around.
While I would generally agree, especially being a salmon fisher, there will always be trade offs. We are facing a La Nina event this year in the NW so one can only imagine how much sediment is going to come rolling into the streams and rivers from the 100,000s of acres of now denuded landscape and it will to do so for years.
Yep,
there's no easy solution.
Money help, but even on private timberlands where the company can spend what it needs to (should it decide that's the way to go) they still have issues.
The desert is a true treasure for him who seeks refuge from men and the evil of men. In it is contentment In it is death and all you seek (Quoted from "The Bleeding of the Stone" Ibrahim Al-Koni)
