Actually, when you log a forest of evergreens and leave the site for nature to recover on it’s own, it would take more than a lifetime for the evergreens to once again dominate the area. Deciduous trees would dominate for our lifetime. Here in Washington State the site has to be seeded with small evergreen starts, so that the site can be ready to harvest in 30 to 50 years.
to cleokaya:
I have friends in Washington who used to go to the public works dept. where they live on the Olymipic peninsula and get flats of starters to replant their land every 3-4 years. They felt that was the greatest program ever devised for landowners.
I read somewhere that most of the forests in the eastern U.S. were once farmland.
I have seen the results of clear-cutting in Brit. Columbia. Quite destructive. But I understand it is something that loggers do when it is not their property, such as when they get logging rights on government land. It would be a rare private land-owner who would permit that kind of devastation on his land.
cleokaya almost 16 years ago
Actually, when you log a forest of evergreens and leave the site for nature to recover on it’s own, it would take more than a lifetime for the evergreens to once again dominate the area. Deciduous trees would dominate for our lifetime. Here in Washington State the site has to be seeded with small evergreen starts, so that the site can be ready to harvest in 30 to 50 years.
kirbey almost 16 years ago
nature is wonderful !
bald almost 16 years ago
to cleokaya: I have friends in Washington who used to go to the public works dept. where they live on the Olymipic peninsula and get flats of starters to replant their land every 3-4 years. They felt that was the greatest program ever devised for landowners.
pschearer Premium Member almost 16 years ago
I read somewhere that most of the forests in the eastern U.S. were once farmland.
I have seen the results of clear-cutting in Brit. Columbia. Quite destructive. But I understand it is something that loggers do when it is not their property, such as when they get logging rights on government land. It would be a rare private land-owner who would permit that kind of devastation on his land.