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I agree CT on all you said, but deforestation is not forest management.

Deforestation is another issue that has a whole other set of regulations, which, in the United States, is quite extensive.

Once the forest is planned to be gone forestry management ends, and a massive permitting process begins.

Commented: Tuesday, June 13th, 2023 @ 4:05 pm By: Stan Deatherage

Big Bob: You really are a Leftist.

So you believe that Forest Managers are government bureaucrats, ergo, I was completely right with my first sentence on this thread. Like I said, "none of this is rocket science."

Commented: Tuesday, June 13th, 2023 @ 3:07 pm By: Stan Deatherage

Land owners are forest managers. You did not know that?

Commented: Tuesday, June 13th, 2023 @ 2:44 pm By: Stan Deatherage

Forest managers are anybody that owns over 20 acres of woodland.

Why is everything so institutionalized for you Leftists?

Big Bob: Do you own 20 acres or more of woodland forest?

Commented: Monday, June 12th, 2023 @ 8:54 pm By: Stan Deatherage

Some of the worst destroyers of forests in today's world are the green energy grifters. They do this multiple ways. They clear cut old growth forests in Canada and the US, including North Carolina to make wood pellets to fire "biomass" electric plants in Europe. These are often retired coal plants, and burning wood pellets generates more CO2 than burning coal for the same amount of electricity produced, but they call it "green energy" because it is "renewable". We have some "biomass" electric plants in the US, but most are in Europe. It is just American and Canadian trees that are firing those plants in Europe.

Then there is the clear cutting of forests to actually build the "solar farms" and "wind farms". To look at just one example here. A request under the UK's equivalent of the Freedom of Information Act to Foresty Scotland produced not only documents but an official calculaton by that government agency of how many trees had been cut down in Scotland for wind farms on public land. This did not include pribate land deforestation or any of the solar farms. They calculated that 13.1 million trees had been cut down just of public land to build wind farms in Scotland. Wind and solar are very land intensive and forest loss to build these facilities worldwide is huge.

Then there is the blades for the wind turbines. The core of these is balsa wood which is light and strong, which is covered with resins. The source of the balsa wood is the Amazon rain forests, called "the lungs of the planet" which is being clear cut for balsa wood to make wind turbine blades.

It is rare that a new wind or solar farm is built in Germany without local environmentalists suing to stop it, arguing that it will lead to deforestation, loss of wildlife habitat, slaughter of birds and bats, and other environmental harm. Many of those lawsuits are succesful in stopping wind and solar farms. Last year, the German courts, for example, ruled with local enviornmentalists to prohibt a wind energy company from clear cutting the ancient forest that was the setting for the Grimm Fairy Tales.

Wind energy companies are also bad about water pollution. A wind project in Scotland was fined 5 million euros for a massive fish kill that their water pollution was responsible for, and in Ontanio Canada, four wind energy companies have been indicted for multiple criminal felonies for polluting the ground water. As a result of their pollution, water in one district in Ontario was so toxic people were told not only not to drink it or cook with it but not to even bathe in it.

Commented: Monday, June 12th, 2023 @ 4:01 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

Simplicity does appeal, but I don't know anyone who would agree forest management is "simple". That's just politics.

Commented: Monday, June 12th, 2023 @ 1:19 pm By: Big Bob

Most things in life are complex and are better addressed with a thoughtful response.

Commented: Monday, June 12th, 2023 @ 9:58 am By: Big Bob

it's more about you taking a complex issue to score political points. Both the timber companies and the environmental groups have made mistakes. Climate change just makes it all worse.

Commented: Sunday, June 11th, 2023 @ 6:49 pm By: Big Bob

It comes down to this question: Do you want any wild places on the planet? If the answer is yes, then you cant give all the trees to Weyerhaeuser. Its a complex issue and goes to the roots of who we are how we want to exist. Unfortunately there are few wild places left, certainly not in the Eastern US.

Commented: Sunday, June 11th, 2023 @ 6:14 pm By: Big Bob