THE ADIRONDACKS | Logging | PBS

http://www.pbs.org/theadirondacks We'll trace the storied history of this critical industry and its continuing effect on the economy and environment of the Adirondacks. We'll venture deep into the woods with third generation Adirondack Logger, Paul Mitchell, to learn about the challenges of modern day logging as compared to earlier Adirondack loggers. For more information visit http://www.pbs.org/theadirondacks

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[LinnTractorNut]

@zekezero12345 The sun controls our climate, and that of all planets in our galaxy. The sooner we focus on predicting solar weather and accomodating to that change instead of deluding ourselves into thinking we can change global climate the better. We need to address energy needs without nuclear, and we need to increase our local supplies of food and other consumer staples, which would increase jobs and benefit local economies and tax revenues.

[LinnTractorNut]

@Bubster71 No, tree huggers say it's so much better to lock up all those lands forever, shut down mills like Lyons Falls or Glens Falls, and then get government grants of all that free money to turn them into something else, to heck with the unemployed and those who get taxed out of their homes. Our state is broke but somehow they always have more money to buy more land. Adirondack wood, water, iron and steel built the Empire State, now it's becoming one big ghost town.

[dooder31]

the second dude in the progam getting interviewed was my mom's teacher.

[timbco475]

@freightliner450 yes it was my felling wood

[JHR1987]

lake eire is full of garbage anyways cuz of michigan

[zekezero12345]

@LinnTractorNut Are you really trying to argue that temperate deforestation increases albedo enough to off set the effect of the tree loss, (I am of course assuming that you agree with the global warming premise?).

[cunterkooter]

I would love to move up there

[natureperson420]

@Bubster71 they should let it grow and becom natural

[Bubster71]

NYS with all the financial trouble they're in should start to realize they need to sell timber from these state owned lands or sell some of it's property. They own so much now, but yet continue to purchase more when they are broke. They can't even manage or oversee what they have now. Loggers in upstate NY are going broke looking for somewhere to work, or working for large companies who own and manage large parcels only to offer very little profit and they make all the money.

[LinnTractorNut]

Most of the towns, highways, railroads, and even hiking trails or lakes owe their existance to loggers, not to mention all the paper and wood used by the nation that came from there. Thinning temperate zone forests allows winter snow to reflect heat where thick evergeen cover asorbs heat, cutting rainforests for resources instead increases global warming there, locking up the Adirondack forests is wrong, and when disease or bugs leave you with dead stands of timber ready to burn? Then what?