lmao i found that funny as hell.
That's why Oregon has tons of hippies but no tree hugging hippies. Well a few tree huggers come from out of state but once they're here they usually quit caring very quickly...trees are just fucking everywhere here! haha
A couple stats for the people seriously concerned about old growth.
1) When they say oregon will never run out of trees (the state motto) they mean it. If you cut down all the trees in Oregon you can cover all the lumber needs for the entire north america and europe.
2) By the time the world needs more trees Oregon's forests will have grown back.
3) Old growth forests are unhealthy forests. They make worst ecosystems than new growth and are a major fire hazard and choke hazard for new trees and plants.
4) Every summer Oregon and northern california have several absolutely massive forest fires (we're talking millions of acres) caused by lightening and natural causes. These fires burn more forest in the couple weeks they're going than 10 years of logging.
5) These fires are very good for the forests. Without them the forests would choke themselves out and the old growth would die and rot just sitting there blocking sunlight from younger trees.
6) The only reason Oregon loggers don't cut faster is for economic and price of wood reasons. They have no interest in clear cutting (not that clear cutting is bad) and they always replant for every tree that falls. It's in their own interest to replant so they don't have to buy more BLM land.
7) theres a lot more old growth than people think. Those hippies obviously have been to the great redwood forest and probably thought its the only place like it in the world. No its the only place like it that is easily accessible via a commercial highway. Also most of the trees in that forest have been dead for centuries, thats why they can drill a big hole through them for cars to drive through.
Sorry for the rant, just wanted to clear that up in case anyone is a huge tree hugger.
