Daniels to open state forests to more logging

[hippiechick]

We don't need no stinkin' TREES !!!

http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050917/NEWS01/509170502


By Theodore Kim
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MARTINSVILLE, Ind. -- Gov. Mitch Daniels on Friday announced a plan to fell up to five times as many trees in the state's public forests as in previous years, a move he said would rejuvenate aging groves and stimulate Indiana's timber industry.

The Republican administration's efforts bring the state into a a growing and impassioned debate about how best to nurture Indiana's 150,000 acres of state forest: through selective clearing or by exercising a more hands-off approach.

Daniels and top state forestry officials -- most of whom the governor appointed -- said the strategy would target older and stricken trees near death, as well as denser groves that could become havens for insects and disease.

State natural resources officials then would use the additional timbering revenue, perhaps as much $4.5 million, for conservation efforts. Those include planting more trees, buying more acres of forest and offering cash incentives to owners of private forest who do not develop their land.


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[Abathar]

1. Its not a bad idea

I own 40 acres here in Martinsville and I had mine logged last fall. The increase in deer, turkey and coyote was obvious. The amount of new growth and sunlight did wonders to the lower canopy and ground cover. As long as we keep putting out the fires we might as well do something to help clean out once in a while.