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Re:America in flames by freehunter on Friday September 11, 2015 @11:59AM (#10204426)
Well for one, that's not entirely true. Loggers plant just about as many trees as they cut down. Otherwise they'd be out of business pretty quick. And even when they chop, "thinning things out" is a perfectly valid way of logging and is practiced in many places.

Secondly, the question was "why don't they thin things out". Not "why don't we let them thin things out". Implying a change to normal behavior.

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Re:America in flames by Qworg on Friday September 11, 2015 @01:02PM (#10204806)
Planting trees post clear cutting does not establish a healthy or usable forest.

Thinning is more expensive and difficult than clear cutting, which is why we don't do it often.

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Re:America in flames by freehunter on Friday September 11, 2015 @03:14PM (#10205621)
Well, planting soy beans after cutting down a forest doesn't establish a healthy forest either. But farms are useful. Tree farms are useful as well.
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