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80. Germany rules in forest management.

Gifford Pinchot was the very first American forester educated in Germany. Check out his history with Roosevelt and John Muir. Carl Schenk began the first school of Forestry here in WNC. On the Vanderbilt estates, now Pisgah National Forest. Our little Forest College here is so unique historically, plus we have the most diverse forest species in the Nation. Our students have to learn over 100 species by name, sight, location, Latin name, with leaves and without in winter and ecological requirements. Low impact small lot management with horses, on site portable mills help families keep large timber stands through proper healthy manipulation. Otherwise, taxes force them to sell to developers and we loose our air filters, oxygen generators and wildlife habitat. And........we do not freaking rake the forest floor. We prescribe burn and removes fuel of dead an dying trees, which climate change is the biggest culprit, inviting non indigenous insects and disease. 2016 marked 110 years of scientific, ecologically sound forest management and protection. We also train Wildland fire fighters, hot shot crews and some become elite smoke jumpers. We have had casualties in Storm King fire and others. And, trump, shut your Putin Holester, you know zero. The Kochs destroy more forest with little to no regulations, with their pulpwood business. My god I hate that fool trump. I will stop, I am passionate about caring for, through scientific management, 100 plus years of data, our forest and the wildlife therein.