If you think back on it, as I did in this week's column, the big timber collapse of the late 80s and early 90s was a pretty accurate sneak preview of what it means to live beyond our means.
We're all loggers now.
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Jeff, having done the whole gamit of woods work, planting trees, thinning trees, slash burning, and than into logging, both cat/skidder logging as well as high lead logging, I feel comfortable with the following.
I got into logging in 1973, the year my son was born. I worked in the woods as a logger up through 1979. Being the only long hair on the crew, I caught a lot of flack about being a tree hugger turned rouge.
What really amazed me was the relationship to the land the loggers had at that time. Fully realizing that clear cutting was a thing of days gone by, the men I worked with understood conservation of the forest so much better than the "enviromentlist's" of the years to come.
Loggers of the late 20 century, late 60's on, knew management was the answer and were already starting this process when the radical element came on the scene with lawyers and effectively shut the woods down.
Now the timber rots on the stump and wild fires take whats not rotten.
So very sad.
Michael Fansler
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