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- October 19, 2009 at 2:22 pm #40962
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Video – 1947 timber being cut, hauled, and milled that are 2,000 – 3,000 + years old.October 19, 2009 at 10:43 pm #54678lancek
ParticipantHey bumpas great clip that was some real interesting stuff everybody should watch this
October 20, 2009 at 1:18 am #54679matt wny
Participantvery interesting video!! thanks for the link.
October 20, 2009 at 2:12 pm #54677Scott G
ParticipantAmazing what they could pull off in the day…
I do have to say it is tragic what has happened to that uneven-aged forest, however. Most of it has been converted to even-aged 50-80yo stuff. That forest type is not meant to be under even-aged management, let alone high graded.
There are efforts underway to restore the various age classes/structure through logging. Unfortunately most of the genetically superior old growth is gone with the exception of a very few, small reserve set asides.
The forestry practiced back then (or lack of it) was all about high value volume and nothing else, read high grading & high production. In our interior forests it is pretty easy to bring everything back in balance due to the relatively short natural disturbance interval. Not so much when you are dealing with a landscape of organisms that are thousands of years old…
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