Please be aware that California is NOT cutting
down trees at an alarming rate, as the restrictive and crippling rules against
harvesting has shut down and put many mills out of business. Please also
be aware that the non-self regenerating species are replanted, and the
self-regenerating species are re-growing nicely. A lot of the
anxiety over timber harvesting is manufactured by groups that rake in a lot of
money from folks who are worried about the demise of forests. Much of
the anxiety is unnecessary and the demise of forests is untrue.
Since harvesting in California has diminished
to a huge degree, the wood we need is imported. This does several
things...it sends U.S. money out of our own country, it takes away
various tax monies from our state and country, and it uses vast amounts
of fuel to bring the wood into our country from somewhere else.
I don't know where the area is that is being
discussed, but there is plenty of wildlife here at our place. And
harvesting timber carefully and selectively simply opens up the forest to
sunlight, thereby growing the kind of vegetation that deer love best.
The deer are attracting lions, although those also have a taste for calves and
goats. If you were a rancher, you wouldn't be very happy to lose your
livestock.
Try not to be taken in by the "crisis
industry." It is a very well organized business.
I agree that there are far too many people on
the planet, but I doubt anyone has a good solution short of dumping all the
medical advancements we have made and let babies, children and anyone over 40
die of natural death as they used to over 125 years ago, or even
less.
I find it interesting that everyone is alarmed about Global
Warming and the polar bears, but, they want coyotes, bears, and mountain
lions out of "their" trails and backyards. California is cutting down trees
to an alarming degree to build homes, but, then people complain about the
increased animal action in those new neighborhoods and the old neighborhoods
complain about the increased wind, dust and errosion because the tress
are gone. I hope one day we learn and correct what we are doing to our
world. It's not just the gas it's what we are doing locally that will made a
big difference. I doubt however it will be in my life
time.
