Reply #5: Old Growth is not replantable

[sandnsea]

Here's a page on the Chattahoochee Forest. The only Old Growth left in that forest is pretty much in unreachable places, until recently when they started logging by helicopter. They are trying to document Georgia Old Growth and have come up with 41 locations on the Chattahoochee. One stand has 200 White Oaks, and that's one of the larger stands. Alot of areas that are trying to be protected as wilderness aren't even mostly Old Growth anymore. You can't replant trees and think they're going to replace trees hundreds of years old and have the same kind of environmental heritage and home for wildlife to leave to future generations.

http://www.gafw.org/old_growth_spot.htm

In addition, how they replant is as important as replanting itself. What are they replantig? In alot of places they replant only one profitable tree which grow up into unnatural forests that are not healthy and are an invitation to infestation and fires.

There is a way to do this, but this happy little replanting and tree plantation bullshit is not the way to do it. It's a lie.