Representative of the scarring of clearcutting

USA / California / Pollock Pines /
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Coordinates:   38°51'36"N   120°35'55"W

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  • Looks like it has been replanted.
  • "Scarring of clearcutting" - knee-jerk reaction.... look again
  • This property is owned by Sierra Pacific Industries, California's largest landowner with 1.75 million acres and growing (larger than Yosemite). All of those little clear cut areas, and all of the private forest around them are theirs. When they clear cut an area, even a small one, several things happen. Habitat for wild life is destroyed, tremendous erosion takes place (harming the land directly, and causing harm "downstream"). By law they are now required to replant. One would think that a good thing, but the amount of herbicide they use causes harm to the land, wildlife, and downstream as the herbicide washes into nearby waterways and into the drinking water of nearby residents. They are not logging, they are deforesting. Only by laws and lawsuit have they been forced into responsible behavior, which they would rather not do. Any claims by them that they are environmentally responsible is only because they have been forced to be, not because they want to be.
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