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To: Grainne who wrote (102731)	5/1/2005 9:58:40 PM
From: ManyMoose	Respond to of 108807

Clearcutting emulates natural processes, and you can re-establish any mix of species that you want. The landowner decides. When I was a practicing silviculturist, I routinely reserved snags, down logs, and live trees for wildlife habitat. The live trees were problematic because they have a big crown, which catches a lot of wind horsepower after the stand is harvested. I told the wildlife biologists that this would remain a problem until we got that big sail off the top of the reserved trees. We worked out a solution, but it was very expensive. We cut the tops out of the trees by sawing them or blasting with dynamite. This had the effect of creating new snags, which are more important to wildlife than live trees. Another problem we faced is the danger presented by these reserve snags and trees. One day we carried the body of a logger out of the woods. He had been killed by one of our snags that broke off when he cut a tree that fell into it. Loggers helped us make the wildlife tree program better by telling us where they would be safest from logging equipment. Clearcuts don't look pretty at first, but they are the best way in many areas to harvest the value of a renewable resource.