Last month I went the the Family Forestry Expo. What?!?!?! You haven't heard of the Family Forestry EXPO?!?!?! Just to prove that I am not making this up, I took a picture of the sign:
See, it does to exist. One of the things to watch at the Family Forestry Expo is how modern day logging is done. I had no idea. First, this red machine just cuts the log and then picks it up, 
and lays it gently on the ground. Really, you couldn't even hear it drop. 
Then, this yellow machine comes and hauls away a group of logs.
And takes them to this machine that picks up a log at one end and strips the log of branches as it goes through to the other end.
The logs are organized by size so that all the logs in one pile will go to one place to be cut the same size .
And that is what I learned at the Family Forestry Expo.
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This kind of machinery can destroy 11 acres of land in a single day with a single person sitting in an air-conditioned cab... ANd with nearly 7 Billion people living on this planet there is of course no possible way we could overharvest? I mean forestry is sustainable right? I mean all that brown earth that use to be green forest, it a beautiful thing right? Ever look out of a window of an airplane and see what this machinery does to the only home we have... Of course it's not the loggers, it's the enviros that are ruining everything right? Get educated about the truth of what's happening to this only Earth we have!
http://forestpolicyresearch.org
The US Agriculture Department says today America has 749 million acres of forest land. In 1920, we had 735 million acres of forest. We have more forest now. How can we have more? Well, for one reason, the type of technology that peacefromtrees attacks now allows us to grow five times more food per acre, so we need less farmland. And so, lots of what once was farmland has reverted to forest. Still, even with more forest, people have an emotional reaction when they see scenes like this. And if the issue is simply the application of technology to logging, I wonder if he has considered that this technology allows fewer workers to produce more, allowing for higher wages for them, the reallocation of human resources to other productive activities, and lowering the accident and fatality rates among loggers.
Does peacefromtrees live in a house built from wood, reads books or the newspaper, or use toilet paper?
Peacfromtrees does not own a home and spends most of his days up in trees, even sleeps up there too...
As for your Dept. of Ag statistics they are only true if you presume a forest of wilting two foot-tall trees with no viable layer of top soil is exactly the same as an ancient forest of 200 foot-tall trees.
A 200 foot-tall Old growth Ponderosa pine has 1.5 square miles of leaf surface area that actively converts co2 into oxygen. And how much leaf surface area does a wilting two foot tall tree have?
In other words your fake science industry representations lack a peer-reviewed scientific basis that shows any sign of credible fact checking / analysis.
Your argumentation is akin to me coming over to your house and bulldozing it and then letting homeless people live in cardboard boxes where your home stood and then telling everyone that there are more homes where your house was then ever before!
More to the point what I mean when I talk about real legitimate ecological homes / forests is what the science of biodiversity is all about!
And the most credible science makes it unequivocally clear that regenerated plantation-based mono-crop forests severely lack the original biodiversity that's essential to the resiliency of the ecosystem / planetary functions.
Of course you'd rather argue AG/extractive industrial-based science rather real ecological science...
It makes me glad that I'm younger than you and that my efforts will outlive your absurd, obtuse notions of what ecology isn't...
The real era of ecological awareness has only just begun and I'm glad you won't be around to get in the way of it much longer!
Have a beautiful wild nature weekend! And make sure remind yourself of all the beauty you've worked so hard to detroy! --Deane
Wow, inflamatory much?
Peacefromtrees, I appreciate that you're passionate about your cause, but geez, the personal attacks and the bitter sarcasm make me not even want to bother to read through your whole comments. No one ever started a movement or changed the world for the better by being a jerk to strangers on the internet.
So.... Ms. Tundra.... funny that this "peace" person is "attacking" your blog. Like you're so into logging and commenting about being anti-logging is going to suddenly inspire you to give up your logging hobby. Little does "Peace" know you and little does "Peace" realize how they just wasted their time. Or... maybe you could work undercover, traveling to logging shows across America, documenting the activity and posting the evidence for "Peace" to comment on. I guess you're going to have to give up your love for logging...darn it. Maybe you should do a blog about the farmer's market...see what comments you get from that.
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