I can’t answer all of your questions in a single reply here, but your questions really help me understand what to make content about.
To attempt an answer to some of your questions, first you need to separate human disturbance into different categories.
Building a permanent highway is much different in impact than building a gravel road on the side of a mountain that is made by just pushing dirt around.
One thing I see in your question is a real concern with us cutting down living trees.
First, according to government forestry documents the forests in the west contained about 40-60 trees per acre in 1911. Today those same forests contain 600% more trees. This is because we have disrupted the natural cycle of the forest which used to burn much more often.
Logging living trees doesn’t harm a forest. It is a way to reduce the timber in the forests without burning it in a forest fire.
Lower densities of trees in the forest keeps more water in the ground, creates better habitat for wildlife, because thick living forests don’t contain much that is edible for that wildlife, and greatly reduces forest fires and tree diseases.
Please let me know all your questions. I will start making some video posts to answer them. Concerning dams, and other human disturbances. Thank you.
Smokey Bear stopped the fires, litigation stopped the logging.
Now we are told we have to wait for the Natural Cycle when the natural cycle is completely destroyed!
You have really hit on the crux of the debate. How much should humans intervene in nature. The dead trees are not worth anything to humans and don’t hurt anything in nature.
In fact, when there are just a few dead trees they can create a place for insects and grubs, which then feed bears.
When something should be done is earlier. A forest should be harvested or thinned regularly to keep it healthy. The disturbed and rough appearance of that ground isn’t bad. It is the idea that humans shouldn’t harvest timber because they cause disturbance to the ground that is one of the problems.
Disturbed ground is part of nature. Disturbance by logging is absolutely needed to avoid fires and stagnant forests later.
Hope that makes sense. Let me know if I didn’t answer the question.
@majestic1776 Letting nature take its course is the is the ideology I am fighting against. Right now it would be breaking a rule for me to take that dead timber.
@HehRobin@thechaosmethod Absolutely! The reason we can’t do it is the environmental NGOs file a lawsuit every time the Forest Service tries to sell timber.
Humans have a spiritual connection to nature. You can feel it in your soul when you get out in it. But the globalist ideology believes REMOVING humans from nature is best.
Globalists have different rules for themselves however. They have turned nature into a commodity they can trade and sell. To them you are just a risk to their asset, which is Nature Credits.
Yes. The disturbance of unchecked fires and 30 million buffalo trampling and fertilizing.
We cannot let fire run wild anymore without burning down billions in infrastructure and costing us billions more to fight them.
What we can do is use cattle to replicate the buffalo, and use logging to do the work of the fire.
Saying nature manages itself is an irrelevant copout. It denies the reality that we need food, wood products, wildlife habitat, and human recreation opportunities.
@BrendaG87249652 The strip logging would be the absolute best in my opinion. You create forage for wildlife while keeping bedding areas.
I will say, those that are really against clear cuts haven’t seen the devastation of some really hot fires that burns everything down to the mineral rock.
It really comes down to two world views. 1. Nature was perfect before humans, so we need to lock humans out of nature ( this is what is taught in college now ). 2. Nature can provide resources for Humans and should be tended for abundance of wildlife and resources.
I truly believe that if we are wise, we can have abundance, economic sovereignty, and keep nature wild for humans to enjoy.
@d23461116 That’s why you need cattle. Better than torching the forest. Ash is a good fertilizer but it definitely doesn’t offset the fire cost and devastation.
In forests that are overgrown or “dog hair” the burn could literally sterilize the ground because it burns too hot.
@thechaosmethod That’s the idea but most of this stuff is far too remote for anyone to collect on a small scale. You definitely need a big operation to have any impact on the sheer amount, and location of all this stuff.
From everything I have researched, I would agree. The globalists either don’t care about humans or actually want humans reduced. When looking at the end goals I can’t see another alternative.
Trump pulled us out of all the UN programs that were literally working towards removing us from public land altogether.
Burgum just got the Public Lands Rule removed and I don’t think very many people will ever realize how close we were to losing hunting and recreation completely due to that terrible thing.
Do we need to scrap our wildlife and forest management and start over?
They cry Climate Change, but let’s use our minds and actually think about the problems and solutions!
@PabloNomorales@Namehere42069 I would argue those were “uncontrolled burns” 😄 but I agree. There were natural fires and human made fires that burned our forests far more often and completely unchecked than they are allowed to burn today.
Every time we move towards Centralization of our resources, we create fragile systems with choke points. That creates more risk. It is always sold to us as a cost savings.
Gas prices are high everywhere because of ONE choke point on the other side of the world.
This should be a wake up call for every individual. When supply lines for food, wood products, or something else you need, become centralized, you lose.