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To: Oral Roberts who wrote (103747)	5/11/2005 3:24:49 PM
From: Grainne	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 108807

My understanding is that clear cutting destroys the habitat that already exists, including that of animal life threatened with extinction. Aside from being extremely ugly to look at, other problems it causes are erosion and mudslides. Forest fires are a beneficial part of a natural process and need to occur from time to time. Selective logging of some trees may be trickier and less profitable, but there is much less environmental degradation as a result. And you won't find Julia Butterfly Hill camped out in your trees for a year, either, with Woody Harrelson coming to visit, reporters and photographers, and a lot of protestors chained together around tree trunks. I have an open mind about this subject. It is not one of the things I know a whole lot about, and certainly if someone could prove that clear cutting did not have any of the negative effects I've mentioned, I would be relieved to know that. I do think there is a philosophical difference between people who harvest trees for a living, hunt, fish and farm, and environmentalists.

To: Oral Roberts who wrote (103747)	5/11/2005 4:25:54 PM
From: Ish	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

<<A big mature forest might be nice for you to look at but the critters need browse and you don't find that in mature forest because of the canopy not allowing sunlight through.>> When I had the hunting club there was 25 acres next to it that was all old growth Walnut. No grass, no flowers or weeds. Dense 100 year old Walnuts growing up straight and worth a fortune (the owner sold 2 acres of them for $25k so he could dig a duck hunting pond on the cleared area) but no deer, birds, rabbits or even mice.