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Title: 30 days is 'ludicrous' timeframe for First Nations to decide on old-growth logging deferral, chiefs say
Category: Environmental
Posted By: DrCaleb
Date: 2021-11-06 07:35:28
Canadian

[DrCaleb]

The wildest news always comes out on Friday.

[Scape]

This will be used as a cudgel to attack and distract by the usual suspects.

[CDN_PATRIOT]

Scape Scape:

This will be used as a cudgel to attack and distract by the usual suspects.

?

Who is attacking what, and distracting why?


-J.

[DrCaleb]

CDN_PATRIOT CDN_PATRIOT:

Scape Scape:

This will be used as a cudgel to attack and distract by the usual suspects.

?

Who is attacking what, and distracting why?


-J.

The logging conglomerates attacking the First Nations who insist on respecting the land regardless of profit, distracting from the harm that logging for profit creates.

[CDN_PATRIOT]

Logging goes too far sometimes, and it makes no sense to not see those trees replaced with seedlings or small trees to replenish. If technology can do anything for this planet, it's to help us come up with a better building material that won't ruin forests and habitats.

-J.

[herbie]

In many cses the First Nations are the loggers. Or they hire them. Or the forest is managed by a community that may or may not be native.
Or there are many that say preserving X% is not good enough every fucking tree must stand.
Add on ancient rules like I see responsible fst the most devastaionj in my area, tax breaks for 'clearing' land for farm use. FOr fusks sakes, the only thing they can grow here is hay. yet all over a huge scars of cleared land everywhere that no one will ever farm or even buy. And you thought old fashioned clear cuts were bad.

Add on you thought our bureaucracy was bad. Add on clans, hereditary Chiefs. elected Chiefs and councils and all their NGOs into the mix... 30 YEARS and we'll still be going blah, blah, blah.

[CDN_PATRIOT]

This would suggest a quagmire bigger than I thought possible. If the FN is partially responsible for logging, can't they themselves stop? How did the bureaucracy in the FN in regards to logging get so bad in the first place?

I have many questions all of a sudden....

-J.

[DrCaleb]

CDN_PATRIOT CDN_PATRIOT:

Logging goes too far sometimes, and it makes no sense to not see those trees replaced with seedlings or small trees to replenish.

Except that IS the problem. Forestry conglomerates have convinced people that planting a monoculture of trees is the responsible thing to do after clear cutting. But diversity is what nature needs to be successful, and a monoculture is what the industry wants to see for future cutting.

https://www.upi.com/Science_News/2018/1 ... 538745094/

[CDN_PATRIOT]

$1:

After almost a decade of maturation, scientists measured the carbon absorption and storage abilities of the different tree stands. The miniature forest with the most diverse mix of trees stored twice as much carbon as the least diverse, the stand with only a single species.

This makes a lot of sense.

$1:

When forests take-up more carbon, it is a sign of greater productivity and health. A diversity of tree species provide food and shelter for a wider variety of animals.

I've noticed this on a lot of my recent hikes through forests with a greater variety of trees and plant life. A greater array of animals and insects (and snakes) that populate the area and contribute to it's sustainability.

My last couple of hikes through one particular area was quite rewarding as well as a learning experience, having seen some species that would be harder to find in a basic forest or even simple parkland.

-J.