We now have forested / timbered lands which weren't forested hundreds of years ago. This is a good thing.
We now have forested / timbered lands which weren't forested hundreds of years ago. This is a good thing.
I also live in the pacific northwest. Where I live there was most certainly a drought last year it was bad. All of the grasses died, they were crispafied. Trees were dying. Ash fell from the sky for a few months from forest fires. Not just in Washington but all over our nation, and this year an even worse drought is expected. Last year we had the least rain in over 40 years during the summer. I remember there was not a drop of rain.
Here is last years https://www.drought.gov/drought/docu...e-july-31-2018
The year before https://www.drought.gov/drought/cale...cember-18-2017
back to 2015 https://agfax.com/2015/07/16/pacific...cord-heat-dtn/
There are tons more links but this is enough to prove that yes we have been in droughts for years now.
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Dr. Who (05-15-2019)
I would love to see the redwoods one day. That is an amazing elevation you live at, wow. That sounds awesome, except maybe those spiders though....eeeee….. :) Well I hadn't thought about not getting sun. I guess that could be a drawback. Where I live now I don't get to see sunsets. The trees block them out. Back when I lived in the tricities the sunsets were magnificent. The sky was so open. The skies would be blazing orange. The sunsets were different every day, some looked like fire, some were purple. Just so beautiful. But where I live now away from the city lights the stars are amazing. That is one drawback of the city is the star light is drowned out by the city lights. Here are some sunset pics from the tricities so you can see what I mean. Hanford sunsets don't play! LoL.
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Dr. Who (05-15-2019)
We aren't sure what killed the mammoths, probably climate change oddly enough. But trees will not grow back like these. Most of our trees are young. Farm land left for the forest to reclaim or timber harvested every 30 years or so. It's not all bad , new growth forest have some advantages over old forest , but there is something about seeing the giants of any species that inspires awe.
Dr. Who (05-15-2019)
Someone may have covered this in the interim from your original post to here, but I disagree with your statement of 'weed trees' for lumber. Silvaculture and reforestation is taken very seriously, and before old growth trees are cut, plans for the reforestation are usually submitted to government entities that monitor lumber harvesting and must be approved before any tree is removed.
Just because a company owns a piece of land that contains trees, does not mean they can freely strip it.
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Tahuyaman (05-15-2019)
I live every summer in the Pacific NW. A couple years ago we had a terrible forest fire situation in places. The fires were started by prople being careless with fireworks and they could have been quickly contained if we ignored environmentalists like you and returned to responsible forestry practices. No rain for a couple of weeks is not a drought.
In imy area we had ash falling from the sky and thick smoke. All of it was from a Canadian fire where they just let them burn.
There is no drought in the pacific NW. The weather there is the way it usually is. Cyclical. Sometimes mild, wet and cool spring and summer. Then a warmer and drier spring and summer. Same with winters. Sometimes mild and a low snow pack in the mountains and sometimes the opposite.
In the Pacific NW you can't buy a piece of timbered land and harvest the trees without a permit from the government. You must submit a workable plan for reforestation. Even then an application is sometimes denied.
The odd thing is, a friend of mine owned a piece of land, about five acres on the edge of the city limit. It was filled with a variety of trees, alder, douglas fir, hemlock and maples. The county made him cut down every tree as they declared it an "attractive nuisance" because homeless were camping in the property. Now the property is basically worthless. He could sell it to a developer for pennies on the dollar.
One of the problems in past reforestation efforts was that they replanted too many trees on the logged area. This resulted in trees which were basically starved for nutrition as they were growing. We have developed better techniques today.
Collateral Damage (05-15-2019)
I could not imagine the county could demand such a thing unless the trees were diseased, endangering public property, or overhanging other property. The campong of vagrants on the property would not require the removal of trees. If all the facts are correct, then whomever demanded the removal of the trees was way over their authority.
Many decades ago, in a land far, far away, I studied reforestation and silviculture in preparation for college. My shift to architecture in senior year of high school overshadowed my love of the forests. And here I sit, crunching numbers to pay my bills, lol.
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