Future generations losing their forests

The present generation has already lost huge amounts of the planets natural environment. With deforestation continuing, future generations will have virtually nothing. www.globalwarmingfg.com

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[WAforests]

Your comments resemble those of a 6 year old and are ridiculous. Firstly, most toilet paper is made from plantation timber and there is no need to use forest products. Secondly, people are also going to die one day. Does that mean it's ok to kill people whenever we want?

[junior23977]

Logging and nature can go hand in hand... We are logging too, but over here (Germany) you shouldn`t fell all trees (forest officials absolutely don't like it!) and you HAVE to plant new trees, if you take out a higher rate of trees. That´s law!! The officials and the people like to see "Plenterwald".. (old and young trees mixed) .. In the vids you often see that there are no trees left - forests look destroyed. Is that the usual way of logging? .. Do they have to plant new trees?...

[JohnConnr]

Yes I am an environmentalist, however I work in the Jarrah forest and personally I think it's a shame that we cant have a decent sustainable logging industry!Why?Jarrah is a great timber however the rednecks of the past clear felled a lot of it and we are left with regrowth some of which will be decent forest in a 100 years or so given dieback and a lack of rainfall doesn't wipe it out. The forests are under great pressure and they should honestly be left alone by the miners and the loggers.

[JohnConnr]

Woodsbull it's all very well to say BMP's but lets put this into perspective! Firstly the Jarrah forest is aproximately one 3rd of it's original size, there is very little old growth left what is left is a series of forest blocks as you would be aware. These forest blocks have to contend with dieback (very destructive) wild fires, decreasing rainfall which can cause drought deaths and 50 year logging cycles which can never be sustainable long term as jarrah takes 100+ years to be loggable

[KemoreJ]

Trees are only a renewable resource if it is managed SUSTAINABLY. Sustainably means forever. The fact that trees are getting smaller mills are closing down and jobs are being lost means that it is not a sustainable practise.

[KemoreJ]

"Rots away into waste". I respect your unique perspective but this is worrying. Why is nature a waste? Why must everything be valued as what it can do to please the human race alone?

[woodsbull620]

I do not pretend to have all the answers but I am saddened to sometimes see mismanagement by no logging and mismanagement by over logging. Where has the common sense gone in this country. We are but care takers for the moment, we should not be allowed to rape our environment NOR should we be allowed to care so much for it that it rots away into waste. Simple common sense would go a long way. Terminating corp greed would help too. Wait their 3.5 mill bonus, oh I forgot, too bad for our kids.

[woodsbull620]

Protecting our environment is improving dramatically but $ greed can still creep in (usually not from the logger in can tell you that). We MUST WORK TOGETHER using Best Mgt Practices BMPs during vital wood harvesting while leaving productive land for our future. We need to ask and answer does the timber need harvesting in it's present life cycle? will the stand be improved from proper harvesting, will water, soil and the ecosystem be protected. Continued CSJ

[woodsbull620]

I am a logger with over 20 yrs experience and an avid environmentalist Yes, our wood industry is VITAL to the health of our forests, did you hear that, the health of the forests? Ok., just checking, also our economy and way of life, ie toilet paper, tooth paste, medicines etc However, fiercely protecting our environment with proper forest management (Best Management Practices BMP's) for the very same future reasons we speak of here, is imperative and can not take a back seat. Continued... CSJ

[Bottleshooter8]

There's to much planet for all forests to be destroyed. Look at the positive and realize that trees are a renewable resource.