Re:Instant stone (just add water) (2018)
by twothamendment on Monday November 18, 2019 @12:18PM
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It is out out of touch arguments like this that prevent good management of many of our forests. We can have healthy forests, jobs and resources to build with, but when people too far away sit around with a calculator and make a decision, we don't get any of them.
All your math doesn't change the fact that there are too many* trees in my area.
*Too many does not mean endless supply.
1 square mile is 640 acres. At 8 acres per year, this is 80 years to get back to the beginning! I would have expected that commercial logging is much faster because 8 acres is not much!
Re:Instant stone (just add water) (2018)
by maxerickson on Monday November 18, 2019 @05:26AM
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They go much faster than 1 tree every 15 minutes. It will of course vary based on the terrain and size of the trees, but watch how modern operations work:
Taking a reasonably dense plantation size (which we can assume is close to optimal these days) we get 620 trees per acre (https://www.forest2market.com/blog/how-many-tons-of-wood-are...).
So a single commercial logging operation is going to be able to clear cut 2 acres of dense forest every 3 months - which will then be just gone and not coming back with any type of biodiversity or wild life for at least 10 years probably longer if ever since we're not talking plantation growth here.
You don't have as many trees as you think.