What happened to the restoritive forestry site

Tim,

Nothing has happened to the Restorative Forestry Forum site, it is still there.
Although there has not been allot of activity from participants. The primary purpose was to promote restorative forestry through the practice of worst first single tree selection and the ultimate low impact overland extraction method of modern animal power. The discussion and exploring of this approach is intended to expand the number of practitioners through education of the superior nature of this work for the landowner’s benefit.

I think this is a reflection of the reality of some forums on the internet. Unless they are monitored daily by a human, they are constantly infiltrated by computer robots that put all sorts of stupid stuff on the site, just like what shows up here (DAP) regularly, including some offensive stuff at times. This is exactly the same thing we experience on the RF site.

We get maybe a half dozen request for memberships weekly almost all of which are bogus (robots) or not a real person interested in the site for what it is or was intended to be – a discussion site about the tenets of Restorative Forestry.

I think this is an important consideration for the development of APLAW or whatever we end up calling an international animal powered logging association. I am not sure of what to do about it. I certainly am not technically qualified to say much about computer technology or the internet.

Maybe someone else will know more about how we can grow this effort through the internet, but I still suspect their are many potentially powerful
participants that don’t have a computer, the internet or any way to be a part of this outside of their physical world and community, so we must keep that in mind as this effort moves forward.

Anyone is welcome to join the RF site and participate on the subjects or create new ones, once they go through the hoops of getting approved on the site.

This is a sad situation, but it reminds me of the first cartoon
I saw about the internet being the “information super highway”. The cartoon had a drawing of a big six lane road that was bumper to bumper garbage trucks. Sad but true.