FW: [RC] How tree hugging hurts the environment - Mike Sherrell
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trees and brush are key habitat for whole ecological networks of insects, birds
and animals. These people are complaining that they want to live in the forest,
and they want all the rest of us to pay to screw up the forest so they can.
Forget it -- I'm not interested.
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Watching, as on the
news…
I was also listening to a
congressman who tried to do get action taken many years ago. Sorry you may
consider it blown out of proportion rhetoric. He worked with Senator Feinstein, all the agencies around Tahoe did studies and came
up with a plan on making the forests healthier & safer. Then nothing was
done due to a particular water agency that did not want equipment in the forest.
When it was offered to be done manually, they said they could not allow
footprints in the forest.
The years of not allowing removal
cannot be made up in just a few years. I also listened to a representative of
the Tahoe planning dept, who acknowledged that for many years they did not allow
homeowners to cut & remove dead, dying, dangerous (leaning onto
houses/decks) trees. She said they changed their policy 5-10 years ago, but that
not everyone knows that yet and that they need to do more to make people aware
that they might actually be able to get somewhere with the planning dept. now.
Yes, the forest do need to burn
occasionally, but they also need to have dead & diseased trees removed since
we don’t allow the natural burns to take place.
