How do view clearcutting timber - aspen, hardwoods, alder, conifers, etc.

[MLH]

How do view clearcutting timber - aspen, hardwoods, alder, conifers, etc.

[wallofsam]

Sorry MLH I don't understand what your asking.

[MLH]

What are your opinions on clear cutting? Support? Neutral? Detest? And reasons?

[wallofsam]

Oh. Totally support it, it provides lots of food and cover the following few years. The paper companies clean out all those plots of land in the U.P. and a few years down the road, it provides a pretty good spot to hunt.

[summit229]

Tree-huggers will try to tell you different, but wallofsam is exactly right

[summit229]

I just wanted to add that I (and I'm guessing wallofsam also) am talking about managed clearcutting, which is usually the case, not clearcutting an entire mountain for instance

[Beekeeper]

In managed blocks with the proper stream buffers it is OK. One problem we have in the south is that huge tracts get cut all at once and there is incomplete mixing of various growth phases. We end up with loblolly pine mono culture planted in dense stands. Little to nothing but pine needles underneath after about 7-10 years. Due to the deflated price of pulp wood these stands don't get managed properly due to cost and are seldom thinned these days.

I'm all for timber managent done properly.

[VT Outdoorsman]

We have a forestry management program in place on my farm. I entails mainly selective harvesting. there are some areas that are pretty much completely removed of trees. As long as there are small tress that will grow up in their place, its ok.

[bonnier-admin_2]

It works fantastic if you fo it right, got to have balance

[rezavoirdog]

Do it right to reduce fire hazards, cut slash piles to burn in the late winter, early spring to thin the forests, generate pinecone germination, etc... Responisible woodsmanship will create a better forest, wilderness for animals and hunters alike...

[buckhunter]

Clear cutting produces some great habitat for wildlife but may create erosion damaging nearby streams. If done right it's a good thing.

[Jim in Mo]

It is good, tender green stuff deer like to eat sprouts and at the right height for them to get to. As said before, if it's done right. Back around the turn of the century the Ozarks was raped of its timber. Tremendous amount of soil erosion occured.

[CPT BRAD]

I think it kills the acorn crop personally, the only thing they cut here are hardwoods and leave the pines. I don't know, I don't understand it, but I don't like it.

[Christian Emter]

I don't mined as long as it is a small amount. For fire breaks.

[rudyglove27]

Agreed with wallofsam answer above and A + 1 for you sir!!!