The question for timber as a renewable resource (not old-growth) is brutally simple: can stands be regenerated as currenlty ma- naged (continuous cutting cycles) longer that 300 years? If there is no evidence of such, we need a serious reevaluation of of those methods. And timber is not the resource my friend. The only resource is productive soils. That's the only important difference between cutting regimes and natural cycles of wind- throw, fire, and natural regeneration. One carries away the nutrient and the habitat for micro-fauna and micro-flora which regenrate soil productivity, and the other does not. -- Shelley Cimon - Oregon Hanford Advisory Board | Tel: (503) 963-0853 Norm Cimon - Forestry & Range Sciences Lab | Fax: (503) 963-0853 1208 First Street, La Grande, Oregon 97850
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