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Comment 3 for Public Workshop: 2022 Scoping Plan Update – Natural and Working Lands Technical Workshop (nwl-2021-tech-ws) - 1st Workshop.
First Name: Garlynn
Last Name: Woodsong
Email Address: garlynn@woodsongassociates.com
Affiliation: Woodsong Associates
Subject: Clear cuts and climate change
Comment:
Why would you ever put clear cuts on a list of management strategies to produce positive climate outcomes? Hopefully, you would only do this for modeling of a BAU scenario? Clear cuts are antithetical to sequestering carbon, rebuilding ecosystems, protecting water quality, preventing wildfire, or restoring rural economies sustainably. We should NEVER AGAIN allow clear cuts on forest lands. SELECTIVE HARVEST must be the new management practice framework for ALL of our forest lands' this may requires state legislation to enact statewide on the ground action to change harvest practices in favor of solving for forest health, wildlife habitat, sustainable harvest, and carbon sequestration. There's plenty of research that supports this (such as this: https://clarknow.clarku.edu/2013/10/18/new-clark-study-on-clearcuts-shows-surprising-trends-in-carbon-water/), but it's important to follow the money; a lot of pro-clearcut research has been published, funded by the timber industry, that doesn't represent solid science as the conclusions were drawn prior to the research being conducted.
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Date and Time Comment Was Submitted: 2021-07-21 09:37:33
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