Forest service veteran describes mismanagement in tree-thinning auctions
1 Sep 11 12:18 PM · 12d ago · 1 post · 7 comments · 1 source · development 1 of 2
A retired forest service Southwest regional head cited poor forest management practices in which the wrong trees were cut during thinning operations auctioned by the same agency, leading to his retirement after conflict with leadership.
“they began cutting the wrong trees when so called thinning was auctioned off by that same group”
johnperschino.bsky.socialJonathan Davies Senior author, University of British ColumbiaNature Ecology & Evolution study team Research authors
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Climate dangers: In the Rockies it’s impossible to miss the grey belts of what were green forest, killed by pine beetles. Wildfire fodder now.
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According to a retired forest service SW head, they began cutting the wrong trees when so called thinning was auctioned off by that same group. The fight he had with the powers that were, caused him to retire.
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Climate disasters are going to get much, much worse. If people need a reason, outside of any emotionally or politically charged issue, human beings will not be able to afford the massive and continual clean up in currently habitable areas. Climate change will not be financially sustainable.
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Hiking a forested trail in Mount Rainier NP this spring, I saw so many of these beetles crawling underfoot.
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We live in a large meadow next to the forest. We burn wood to supplement our solar heat and have friends in the forest begging us to come help clear downed trees before the inevitable fires come.
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I read an article about the beetles caught a storefront in B.C. and rode it over the Rockies to rain down on Alberta's forests,frozen but viable once they thawed...?
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FIX OUR FORESTS is the fucking wrong way to go. So is mass glyphosate use. Just remember that
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youtu.be/n3EiRynr1Us?... Beethoven 5th "V" for Victory. Canada fight pine bugs too.
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