Clearcutting Kills Forests

This is an introduction to the destructive practice of clearcutting in the Sierra Nevada. Sponsored by Ebbetts Pass Forest Watch, its focus is on Calaveras and Tuolumne counties, where Sierra Pacific Industries is still destroying forests at an alarming rate

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• clearcutting
• Arnold
• calaveras
• tuolumne
• sierra
• pacific
• industries
• deforestation
• logging

[logger089]

But I digress, you can't talk sensibly to close minded environmentalists. Keep destroying the forests for us, hippies!

[logger089]

Some idiots never change. What a load of donkey shit this video is. If trees never grow back, then why are we still logging in the same areas that were logged many times before in the last 150 years?

Clearcutting works, no argument there. It is obvious you are showing footage of recent clearcuts that have not yet been reforested. Ever read any laws? All clearcuts must be replanted to a minimum acceptable restocking rate within so many years, usually 2 or 3.

[SquawMtnD4G]

Did you know that growing trees let off more air than what you call"old growth". And all these areas will be green again in a few years.

[MrsMapyce4ka]

theres that pesky mosquito buzzing around my ear again...SHOO!

seriously, youre totally the fifth wheel here.....please leave

[sewallm60]

@funktronix thats because you're still an uniforned fucking idiot and the red ball is up you're ass keep it there stupid fuck

[funktronix]

@sewallm60 as for you..

seriously...heres a shiny red ball to play with...go away

[funktronix]

@knubs<--elaborating on his "argument"..

1. were talking about clearcuts & deforestaion, not "selective logging"

2. untouched/NATURAL forests are NOT susceptible to disease & fire, lodgepole pine forests (the homogenous shit that loggers planted to dominate the western landscape after their cuts, ARE btw

3. many clearcuts are NOT replanted--no such wildlife live in them anymore

4. all variables are diff. when you talk about diff. forests (pacific coast, dry montane forests, eastern hardwood)

[funktronix]

@knubs<--this guy...just to elaborate on his type

notice how he tries to sneakily undermine and veer off an argument by attaching to and attacking one quote with highly selective information (the currency)

& then tries to confuse readers by greatly generalising an otherwise complicated concept (forest management) with vague, again--selective information--which is itself thrown into the mix as an unrelated subject to cleacutting, overwhelming the unsure reader with sensational claims

[funktronix]

@knubs actually..GET FUCKED smart ass

what you just said was, VERBATIM, TEXTBOOK greenwash that every logging affiliate ALWAYS quotes to try to misinform people who have not read beyond the very surface concepts of the subject..

congradulations on just ILLUSTRATING what *greenwash* is to new people reading this comments section though, who may not be familiar with what this frequently used word in on eco related boards

youre like the lab rat example a teacher pulls out to show her class

[knubs]

@funktronix actually "paper" currency is made from low grade cotton. I guess you would rather have our forests overstocked with trees becoming unhealthy and suseptable to inscect, disease, and catastrophic fires just like the forests managed by the forest service. I happen to work in the woods and the wildlife is more abundant in managed forest because they provide better habitat for them to live in. Maybe you should try educating yourself before making assinying comments.