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THE NEED FOR ACTIVE MANAGEMENT-
The following statement from Cal Poly will hopefully remove any
doubts regarding the need for active Forest management to save our
forests from death by non-management.
While state
regulations are intended to protect California’s forestlands, an
unintended consequence of overbearing regulatory expenses will be an
eventual degradation of forest health in many of California’s
forestlands. The absence of active forest management caused by
overbearing regulatory expenses, coupled with a continued absence of
fire on the landscape, will and has led to overstocked, unhealthy
stands in many forest types in California. These unhealthy stands
then facilitate insect and disease epidemics while also contributing
to a higher risk of catastrophic wildfire.
PDF/Cal_Poly-Forest
Practices-2003.pdf
The Cal Poly paper also
finds California Forests to have the most stringent regulations in
the world. One wonders why anyone would want to prohibit renewable
resource harvesting using the strictest regulations & best practices
in the world. The alternative is to get timber from other areas,
where there are often no regulations & poor logging practices.
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