tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9311998.post4880492719541790765..comments2024-03-27T07:47:11.168-07:00Comments on LA REVUE GAUCHE - Left Comment: Bad Forest Management And Climate ChangeEUGENE PLAWIUKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11736971647879996375noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9311998.post-64101552541608628642007-06-24T20:48:00.000-07:002007-06-24T20:48:00.000-07:00I thought readers might be interested in my recent...I thought readers might be interested in my recently completed report on "Forests, Carbon & Global Warming."<BR/><BR/>http://tinyurl.com/2by9kt<BR/>Size 2 MB - File type MS Word<BR/><BR/>The report explains how climate change is likely to affect Pacific Northwest forests as well as how forest conservation and restoration may help mitigate climate change. The report also helps debunk some of the flawed arguments used by logging advocates.<BR/><BR/>Feel free to contact me if you have any comments/questions.<BR/><BR/>Doug Heiken<BR/>dh@oregonwild.orgDougohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16439779634103149937noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9311998.post-13375765451098457572007-04-12T09:30:00.000-07:002007-04-12T09:30:00.000-07:00I would like to point out, as a forestry student, ...I would like to point out, as a forestry student, that these out-of-date practices are being pushed by old government legislation. If the forest companies had been allowed to do as they wished regarding the pine beetle, its effects could have been mitigated. But unfortunately, those companies operating on crown land <I>must do as the crown tells them to</I>. I am not saying forest companies never do boneheaded things (believe me, I have witnessed them!), but in this case, the companies themselves, cannot be to blame when they are operating under old and out of date law.Corie Mariehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01504767829213923512noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9311998.post-57018322858601682612007-04-09T12:36:00.000-07:002007-04-09T12:36:00.000-07:00Ken I think you are being naive about how long ago...Ken I think you are being naive about how long ago these practices have been supposedly out of date. Been up around Whitecourt or Hinton, they are clearing pine forests and replanting pine forests for soft wood production. And while we are at it the royalties we Albertans get for monoculture tree farming are as ridiculously low as those we get from the Tarsands companies.EUGENE PLAWIUKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11736971647879996375noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9311998.post-48189184202138398482007-04-09T09:33:00.000-07:002007-04-09T09:33:00.000-07:00Eugene - those forest management methods may have ...Eugene - those forest management methods may have been standard in the past - long time ago. HOw the biodiveristy and protection of habitat, water, soil and replanting is exemplary in Alberta's forests...done by forest compnaies. <BR/><BR/>The oil and gas guys are another story. Not much of a stewardship concern in those corporate cultures are there yet. <BR/><BR/>Mountian Pine Beetle is a disaster - and makes those parts of Alberta where it has infiltrated the first really significant casualties of global warming in the province.<BR/><BR/>Prevention is impossble, mitigiation is difficult, leaving adaptation as the only viable strategy.kenchapmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11384045981190810115noreply@blogger.com