Do you hate to see trees being cut down?

Question

Do you think timber harvesting is a necessary evil? Come on speak up!!!

Answer 1

well, timbering has become amaisingly more environmentaly considerate. at my camp near the allegeny national forest in pennsylvania, the woods are full of tall trees. the forest floor is substantialy covered in fern plants. nothing lives in a fern covered forest. they choke off any sun light to the forest floor which keeps new plants from growing. animals cant eat the ferns, and food cant start growing. we have started cuting down alot of the much larger trees to allow the sunlight to reach the forest floor. the direct sunlight kills off the ferns and new things, such as berry bushes and other smaller plants have started to grow. with new food sources, birds and small animals will have something to eat.

wood is without a doubt one of the most important natural resources we use.
of course recycling can help to reduce the demands on wood, but new stuff is always needed. we have become far more responsible with tree harvesting and clear cutting is almost a thing of the past in america. at least for the use of loging(excluding the creation of farmland and other development reasons) we now simply cut paths and select the more mature wood, allowing the smaller trees to grow bigger. not to mention the use of hellicopters to extract the biggest of the trees. not only that, but we plant enoumous tree plantations to harvest when they become mature, which can take 30 or 40 years, if not more.
so yes, i think with the use of responsible timbering methods, timber harvesting is a necessary industry. however, if the trees are being removed for mere convinience reasons without constructive reasoning, then yes, i dont like to see them removed.

Answer 2

Recently hundreds of thousands, if not millions of Christmas Trees were harvested and sold. The people harvesting these trees were really no different than those producing corn, or wheat, and harvesting it to sell at market.

Their planting is a bit different from the standpoint that the time it takes to grow replacements is 4-6 years, which requires them to have 1 yr trees, 2 yr trees, 3 yr trees and so on to have a self sustaining business, and they have to plan further in advance than the corn farmer, but it's still similar in that in the areas that trees are harvested this year, new trees will be planted for 6 years from now.

When you get to the bigger trees, it's the same situation only on a much larger scale and over a greater timeframe.

It really is no different than harvesting corn and wheat, so if one considers harvesting corn and wheat necessary evils, than I guess you'd have to consider timber harvesting a necessary evil.

Another way to look at it though is that it's just plain commerce, and actually, I suspect there is less pollution in timber than there is in corn or wheat as I doubt if they use as much fertilizer. Some of the most polluted land in the US is Midwest farmland.

Answer 3

What's your house made of??

I felled my first (big) tree when I was 8.
Mind you, I'm in BC, but I'm not a logger.

If you don't live in a timber-framed house, you probably use some sort of paper which is also from trees that need to be cut down before processing.

It's better for us that a forest fire which leaves the same impact.

Don't forget, not every forest is an evergreen (traditional/ boreal) forest. A tropical forest ie S America (insert boo-hoo here) regrows to full canopy in only 15 yrs.

Answer 4

I do think that it is wrong to butcher as many trees as being done. I strongly feel that we are depriving this earth of her resources. Trees are a natural way of filtering the air. I know with all the brains in the world some-one could come up with some other way and material to use to build things.....

Answer 5

I like tree's and all, but I've cut a few down in my time and seen the after effects of clear cut logging. Its ugly and destroys beutiful forests.
But look around your life and you'l soon realise wood is a neccesary evil in modern life...and old. My fancy computer is perched on a rather large piece of fashioned wood, called a desk, my home is composed of wood in places, my bottom gets warmed by wood in winter, I write on it, flush it down the toilet, read it. Wood is everywhere.

As long as they leave some as it is and replant the rest I dont complain too loud.

Answer 6

tree harvesting is nesicery for living. fortunately there are plenty of places that plant trees for every tree they cut down and rotate where they cut them down. thanks to awareness of the problem there are 3 times as many trees in the united states now than there was 80 years ago.

Answer 7

If trees weren't cut down, the world, as we know it today, could not exist. I believe there will always be a demand for wood. Many, many things cannot be replaced with "plastic".

Answer 8

i do have seeing healthy trees cut down, as well as trees that are cut down but none planted in their place. i also have seeing forests and wooded areas cut down to build more houses and business and see these homes and stores remain empty because no one moved in.

Answer 9

ya I think cutting down trees is not good
polluting is increasing
and no of trees are decreasind
we should do something it is a serious matter

Answer 10

Seeing the destruction of such a beautiful feature of nature makes me want to cry.