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To: American Spirit who wrote (341428)1/10/2003 12:54:47 PM
From: Kenneth E. Phillipps  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 769670
 
You can drive through an old growth forest on Vancouver Island in BC. As you drive west from Parksville toward the West Coast of the Island, you drive through Cathedral Grove, old growth preserved by McMillan Bloedel. The Douglas Firs are 300 years old and 800 years old. When the last major fire occurred 300 years ago, the bark on some of the older firs was thick enough to allow them to survive. You cannot plant such a forest.



To: American Spirit who wrote (341428)1/10/2003 1:23:57 PM
From: d[-_-]b  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 769670
 
American Spirit,

re:It's not just the tree itself, hundreds of years old, but the entire eco-system.

Most animals can't live in Old Growth, no food, no light to the forest floor. Clear cuts are responsible for the increase in deer populations and predators.


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