[BCNnet] RE: unlogged forests are not necessarily healthy

[LeeRamsey@aol.com]

As one who has spent quite a lot of time in the forests of the West, I find 
the simple slogan of greatest concern these days to be "thinning." It's easy 
to observe that timber companies operate exclusively by clear-cutting: 
there's no profit in any other method. So, if we imagine that commercial 
operators will restore our forests to health by removing tree and brush 
overgrowth (as opposed, for instance, to turning them into tree-farm 
monocultures), we should prepare to be sadly disappointed.

Lee Ramsey