Archived TRUMP WARNS CALIFORNIA - Get your act together or else! (GreatAwakening)
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Archived TRUMP WARNS CALIFORNIA - Get your act together or else! (GreatAwakening)
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[–] robertawearefree ago
I live in PNW. Never been this hot and dry year after year. Not lack of logging (how would we have had billions of acres of old growth in the first place?) but, rather, lack of rain and too hot weather.
[–] Cleanhobo ago
look at the tree rings on those old growth trees... compare the thickness of tree rings to previous ones... If you follow this long enough you will see dry and wet patterns. There It IS hot and dry in the PNW but not insanely so. Old Growth forests are VERY fire resistant. They can burn but it takes pretty extreme conditions. Its the second growth that will burn like crazy, which is part of the sucession that eventually leads to an old growth forest. We have mostly 2nd growth and reprod in the PNW now. This means that we can suffer fires for the next 200 years along with tremendous expense trying to accelerate the recreation of old growth forests while we all starve and go broke or we can continue a logging industry that was killed in the 80s to save spotted owls.
[–] robertawearefree 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
So the problem, then, is that we no longer have any old growth forests. Due to logging. Your point then is that, having gotten to this place by clear-cutting, we need to continue doing what we have been doing?