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37. Old standing dead trees might be most valuable of all to wildlife.

Sun Dec 15, 2013, 07:48 PM

Dec 2013

Even after they fall they provide a bountiful food chain starting with fungi and insects.

I know of a gigantic standing dead elm. It's been dead for decades but stands on with no remaining bark. The morels like it.

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Fuck... fuck fuck fuck...fuck. Walker makes move to harvest last old growth forrest. [View all] Ellipsis Dec 2013 OP

Must silence the trees! shenmue Dec 2013 #1

He is without a soul. A horrible excuse for a human. CaliforniaPeggy Dec 2013 #2

Some days I seriously wonder if the GOP has a suicide pact to bring down the planet. blkmusclmachine Dec 2013 #26

I agree. defacto7 Dec 2013 #27

What the hell... RC Dec 2013 #3

Old-growth timber 'Underused'? postulater Dec 2013 #4

Harvesting old growth in a "sustainable way". What bullcrap. nm rhett o rick Dec 2013 #5

There's nothing these asshats won't exploit for profit or power. Scuba Dec 2013 #6

These guys love to turn everything nature into a capitalized commodity. They never met a strip mine Ed Suspicious Dec 2013 #7

Your comments brought this to mind. Curmudgeoness Dec 2013 #14

It's not even about jobs, I think, it's about more money to his resource raping, capitalist pig-dog Ed Suspicious Dec 2013 #8

Even when Wanker's body turns to ashes the Earth will vomit them up!! hue Dec 2013 #9

Love the Chequamegon! Aldo Leopold Dec 2013 #10

Isn't that part of the North Woods? Calling all tree huggers! Yep, those trees are "just waiting" ancianita Dec 2013 #11

Underutilized? Are you fucking high? Half-Century Man Dec 2013 #12

I wish Gandhi would kick his ass. Enthusiast Dec 2013 #38

I have seen the results of "responsible harvest plans". Curmudgeoness Dec 2013 #13

Yes, I know what you mean. The old growth forest of Georgia pines down the japple Dec 2013 #17

That's awful. cheapdate Dec 2013 #20

For litter, I would expect that they use scrap pine Curmudgeoness Dec 2013 #22

"responsible harvest plan" defacto7 Dec 2013 #28

They leave a buffer zone by the highway so the blind tourists can pretend it's not clearcut nt Ace Acme Dec 2013 #33

Yes, better known as the "corridor". defacto7 Dec 2013 #34

When the looters of the Wisconsin pine forests ran out of timber Ace Acme Dec 2013 #39

The Koch Brothers own Georgia-Pacific......... Capt.Rocky300 Dec 2013 #15

bingo! madrchsod Dec 2013 #16

They have an office there right? A headquarters? Sad that these glinda Dec 2013 #18

Yep, and build millions more chicken houses with them. Kochroaches have bought up japple Dec 2013 #32

Petition anywhere??????? glinda Dec 2013 #19

He wants to "harvest" what neither he, nor any of his greatest grandest ancestors ever planted. Ace Acme Dec 2013 #21

Over mature trees get hollowed out postulater Dec 2013 #23

Old standing dead trees might be most valuable of all to wildlife. Enthusiast Dec 2013 #37

Considering that fucker was born in Colorado... lutefisk Dec 2013 #24

The GOP will pave over the entire planet if they could. And far too many DEMS would just stand aroun blkmusclmachine Dec 2013 #25

I'm convinced defacto7 Dec 2013 #29

It's what I have come to expect from this POS. Enthusiast Dec 2013 #30

The trees may be regrowable but not renewable. defacto7 Dec 2013 #35

Yeah! Enthusiast Dec 2013 #36

Isn't there anything we can do?? a kennedy Dec 2013 #31

I'vebeen off the grid since I posted this.....WOW, what a response. Ellipsis Dec 2013 #40

fortunately, Walker has no input in USFS management plans Viking12 Dec 2013 #41