in fact trees do grow back trees are a crop you can extract 1 cord of wood per acre per year in perpetuity
2/ not all logging hurts biodiversity; sometimes it has no effect; sometimes increases it https://x.com/torulane/status/...
4/ to be fair, there may be more biodiversity in BLM forests than in a timber plantation ... but that doesn't mean that it's not possible to log in a way that's sustainable and keeps diversity https://x.com/VeryLargeShips/s...
5/ yeah, I own 40 acres of "untouched" forest it's thriving, healthy, biodiverse ...and you can walk through it and see the huge half rotted stumps from when it was logged (almost clearcut) 30 years ago https://x.com/gooseycheeks/sta...
7/ this was an open field when we moved here in 2014 7 years later, in 2021:
8/ 3 more years, in 2024
9/ 2011: open pasture, nothing but grass 2024: birch, pine, oak, heather, ferns, blackberry, turkey, deer, foxes, voles you can just do things (cut down trees, then let nature heal)
10/ those fence panels, IBC totes, etc were delivered there in a pickup truck; now it's hard to get there on foot
11/ they don't NEED it, but it can help! https://x.com/real_bmoore/stat...
12/ I disagree with this claim. See page 552 of my homesteading books for details. https://www.amazon.com/Escape-... https://x.com/rl_keith/status/...
12/ I disagree with this claim. 2014 vs 2021 vs 2024 https://x.com/rhetoricquest64/...
13/ Trees are mostly made out of CARBON. Carbon is extracted from the air (trees breathe in CO2, strip out and retain the C, exhale the O2). The amount of minterals that's taken up is small - it's the ash left over when you burn it. https://x.com/real_bmoore/stat...
14/ side thread --> https://x.com/bebee02855324/st...
15/ FWIW, my hometown of West Millford NJ was entirely clear cut in colonial times to power the steel works (the revolutionary war chain across the Hudson was made there) It was kept clear as farmland Completely reforested by 1970s, with stones walls, old basements throughout
16/ yeah, nothing I'm saying should be taken as arguing we should clear cut everything, preserve zero old forest https://x.com/TommyApples80/st...
17/ a "cord" is a unit of volume of firewood. 128 cubic feet (typically a stack 8' long x 4' high x 4' deep ... usually composed of 2 layers, each composed of 2' long split logs') https://x.com/DarthPickley/sta...
20/ that's a huge minority of land that gets logged - the vast majority gets logged and grows right back to forest if that's your concern then I suggest you're not against logging- you're against houses, or "sprawl", or something https://x.com/bunivasal/status...
21/ LOL, funny you should say that. >>> https://x.com/mundanename/stat...
