The proposal comes from an executive order signed by the president on Earth Day in 2022 that directed the US Forest Service and the land management bureau to conduct an inventory of old-growth and mature forest groves as well as to develop policies that protect them.
-Elmo
That sounds like a brilliant idea. I mean, who needs to manage old-growth forests? Just let all that clutter build up, and the fires will take eventually care of it all - right? It's working really, really well in California, after all.
ReplyDeleteRound about 1985, during one of my many trips to Yosemite Park, there were several fires filling the Yosemite Valley with smoke.
DeleteThe fires were caused by lightning. How more natural can it get? This was also after peak tourist season. Nonetheless, the hue and cry from the feel good eco socialists was heard up and down the state. The fires were battled and extinguished.
It gets better. For a decade or more, the same morons had been ramping up to convince fed agencies to let such fires burn. It is natural, they said.
Control freaks, they are. They only want control to produce their du jour imaginations of unicorn fantasies.
Much better to wait for wildfires to burn out the old growth. BRILLIANT!
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ReplyDeleteFight fire with fire
Light My Fire
Ring of fire
Set Fire to the Rain
On fire
Great Balls of Fire
Fire and Rain
Just Like Fire
Burn
Play with fire
Sex on Fire
Disco Inferno
Feel That Fire
Flame
Girl on Fire
Fire on the Mountain
Smoke from a Distant Fire
I Am the Fire
Keep This Fire Burning
Jump Into The Fire
DeleteI'm widing in ma cah, I turn on da wadio. I pull you closa, you want to say no.
DeleteBut when we kiss, ooh fiwa.
FIRE! You're going to burn
DeleteEarth, Wind, and Fire- Too Hot.
DeleteYes old growth stores a lot of carbon, but captures very little more compared to younger fast growing species. A climax forest is essentially a neutral carbon store. The debris from bark, leaves etc. Is broken down by insects and single cell life releasing CO2 back to the atmosphere. This is essentially equal to the uptake from the atmosphere. Just another example of appeasing a friendly voter block. Ole Grumpy.
ReplyDeleteThey've pretty much have already done that.
ReplyDeleteWhy not now? Are his personal holdings currently making money from old-growth forests right now?
ReplyDeleteIf you hit a paywall begging for a donation, just click on "I'll do it later" and carry on.
ReplyDeleteBTW, the statement “Older forests provide the most above-ground carbon storage potential on Earth" is a flat out lie. Young, growing trees in plantations provide much more carbon sequestration capability than do old growth forests, whose trees have basically quit growing. But the anti-logging faction never let a lie get in the way of their agenda while Westen forests burn, along with the old growth trees in them.
I imagine long before mankind paved over the United States, there were lightning strikes that would cause fires that burned for hundreds of miles....
ReplyDeleteThere's nothing wrong with carbon, and I don't give a damn what anyones "Carbon Footprint" is.
ReplyDeleteWhich has to be the stupidest phrase in the history of the world.
Always remember kids, WE are the carbon THEY want to reduce.
ReplyDeleteOn another note, a lot of the old growth timber around my part of the country is dying off. I have spent the last 2 weeks cutting some huge Red Oaks cleaning up some property for some neighbors. The logs went to the mill as they were much too big to even think about turning into firewood. I am feeding the rest through my residual heat producing waste wood reduction device. It's tough, sometimes I am forced to walk around the house in shorts and a T shirt, but I will manage somehow.
Neck