Biden and the Forest Service's plan to save old-growth forests is weirdly controversial
To save old trees, Biden wants to restrict commercial logging on federal land. Could that make wildfires worse?
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To save old trees, Biden wants to restrict commercial logging on federal land. Could that make wildfires worse?
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Environmental advocates say action is still needed to protect “mature” trees, while industry views the move as hindering timber harvests that provide wildfire protection.
Proposed legislation would deploy tens of thousands of workers to thin western forests before wildfires - a technique familiar to Boulder County land managers.
Colorado looks to logging to help re-balance forests By BRUCE FINLEYDecember 13, 2020 GMT GOULD, Colo. (AP) — Stunned by unprecedented megafires, Colorado is embracing logging — mowing holes up to 140 acres in beetle-infested lodgepole pines — in an effort to revive out-of-balance forests. This for-profit mechanized tree-cutting, concentrated between the blackened Cameron Peak and East Troublesome burn scars, has been clearing 3,000 acres a year. And state foresters propose to clear more. At two cutting sites west of Fort Collins recently, hulking red and yellow tractors equipped with w...