On Wed, 05 Oct 2005 11:49:24 -0500, clifto wrote:

Carter-K8VT wrote:
Well, you are right. Logging a "few" trees won't damage the forest.
However, what logging company is going to set up an operation for only a
"few" trees? Let's try and be a little more realistic here...

Forests, left to their own devices, end up with trees far too close
together for good root growth and effective nutrient absorption. Lots
die. The dead ones end up fueling forest fires that take all the trees.
Most logging companies today would take trees in such a way as to let
the remaining trees have room to grow, so they can come back in a dozen
years and harvest again.

Actually they scream rape when told to do that -- they'd rther
clearcut, re-seed and move on. They constantly bitch about the cost of
low-impact logging like removal by helicopter. All they want is huge
gravel roads fed from the side by skid roads.