[BCNnet] unlogged forests are not necessarily healthy

[Dennis Nyberg]

People who think they are protecting the environment by stopping all 
logging have probably not been in many forests.  Many species depend on the 
more light penetrating canopy that can be generated by logging as well as 
other means.  Forest that are never logged, burned or subject to 
destructive natural events are much different and much less diverse than 
the historical forests of the USA.
If you can't distinguish the parts of a plan from simple slogans the 
environment will not be protected in any meaningful way.

Dennis Nyberg
Department of Biological Sciences m/c 066
University of Illinois at Chicago
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