what effects does logging have??

Answer 1

I live in a part of east Texas where logging is done regularly, and I can tell you, that, in addition to what hielodrive said, which is VERY TRUE, it makes the land look like an atom bomb blew away everything in it's sight! The place looks like hell, literally, but the landowners who sell their trees to the logging companies don't give a damn because there's big bucks in it, and people buy and sell land for that purpose since they can't do anything for a living themselves. And that's hard for me to say because I have very close friends who have logging as a career, but the facts are still the facts. Another way of looking at it is that the land is just like one big farm, and at some time the crops are due in, and so the harvesting is done, but I can tell you that it looks like pure hell when it's done, and if you, like me, bought land out here to enjoy the beauty of the trees, well, you can just forget it since everyone sells their trees to loggers, and everyone's land will look like hell at one time or another. Oh, and land erosion is a definite reality since there's nothing to hold the dirt in place once the trees are gone. And believe me, there's no such thing as "selective cutting" or whatever term they may use. They call it "thinning" the trees, but the effect is still the same, and the rest will be cut in a year or two, and no replacement crop will be planted for several years, and it will NEVER look as good as it did before. Also, it has been discovered, as if we needed any scientists to "discover" it for us, that the quality of the replacement trees continues to drop since they are grown in a plantation with all the same trees, and it's the natural habitat the first ones grew in that made them as strong as they were, so, it's a never ending downward spiral, and let me emphasize that I live in a part of Texas where it's in full swing and I have very good friends who are either loggers or sell their land to loggers, so I definitely know whereof I speak, and no "scientist" and all their jargon is going to be able to sell me some BS to tell me that what I have just told you isn't true. God Bless you.

Answer 2

There are many different effects logging has on the land. Logging has both negative and positive effects but most are negative.

Logging affects the composition of a forest, mainly because logging removes the trees. This can change the species compostion of the forest, as well as change the stages of the forest. The Forests in Britsh Columba are mostly climax community ones and in Saskatchewan they are secondary as they have been logged.

The removal of these trees as pointed out removes habitat for wildlife, birds, deer, elk and the little guys such as squirrels. Although it removes habitat, it also allows different habitats to build. An example you cut down a mix stand of spruce and poplar, well the spruce will take time to grow but poplar shoot up like weeds. the poplar allow for differnt animals to come in that spruce do. Afterwards spruce will come back and create a different habitat for different wildlife. so its a pro and a con.

Depending on how logging is done can affect the soils too. Clear cutting which we are most used to hearing destroys large tracts of land for habitat as well as the soils for growing. With the trees removed the soils can be eroded away but wind and water.

By selectively cutting and leaving several mature trees this can be mitigated and bring new life into the forest.

Another impact of logging is to the streams. Logging if done near water bodies had the chance to induce sediements to erode into the water as well as erode river banks. The trees hold the river banks in place and if they are cut down the riverband and riparian areas will erode away. by not cutting down the river bank trees erosion and seidment loading will not occur at rapid rates.

Answer 3

No effect at all if the trees are harvested and replaced in a controlled manner.

Answer 4

It makes the trees fall down at a much faster rate then just waiting for them to fall over naturally.

Answer 5

Lots of birdie nests get dragged away and when the birdies come home at the end of the day they can't find thier homes or thier little baby birdies. (SOOOOO SAD)