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Started by Strick9, May 16, 2016, 12:30:15 PM
QuoteThe fire is much hotter than fires of past as it is chemical induced in mass quantities of dropped fuel and thus often kills not only wildlife but also tree species not adapted to fire.
Quote from: g8rvet on May 16, 2016, 01:34:42 PMGFC?
Quote from: g8rvet on May 16, 2016, 08:38:05 PMEglin gets a pass in my book. They have the largest contiguous stand of old growth long leaf pine in the WORLD! How ever they need to manage that tract is okay by me. That is a living museum of ancient Florida and valuable for the stand of pine alone. I keep saying I want to go see it and just never do. As far as the timber value, a lot of remote places exist in the USA thanks to the money that timber brings in to the Federal coffers. It sucks, but forests need to pay their way as well. USFWS does have a say in management, but not the final say. Although some of the management is not ideal for wildlife, it is better than selling it off to actual timber companies that often have never, and will never, set foot on the land-only the timbering crews and the cruisers see them. They clear cut those stands to the absolute inch of legal allowance to the wet weather areas and leave deforested flat land. A once beautiful turkey oak/scrub pine WMA right behind my house (Robert Brent WMA) got sold off to the timber companies and unlike the Forest Service, who cares a little about wildlife, they care not one bit. You are hard pressed to find a turkey track in those woods that were once a great place to hunt. I would rather have the devil I know than the one I don't. This is a good discussion though. I like hearing other sides on the burn issue as well.
Quote from: Tail Feathers on May 16, 2016, 06:14:58 PMHogBiologist, so the USFS is managing public land for the timber companies benefit and completely ignoring the wishes/needs of the hunting public?That seems a bit out of whack. It is a National Forest. Not a National Forest Inc., strictly for profit. The should balance ALL aspects of forest management...wildlife included.