Tree farms are not the reforestation goals any environmentally conscious person should want, ever. They are not an alternative to actually replanting forests, because they are almost never biodiverse and are never native plants to the area, so they cannot support a native habitat.
The monoculture leaves the area just as barren as it was before the trees were planted, in their straight rows and columns, easy for the harvest machinery to get in there and cut them down.
A tree farm cannot even be a reliable carbon sink, for the trees planted are always fast growing trees which are intended for construction or pulp plants for paper. So whatever carbon is soaked up by the trees, is subsequently released later. Unlike old growth forests which retain that carbon for a long time, potentially forever if they are left alone and never harveted later.
Old growth forests of native trees is what the true goal of reforestation should be, for they do support a full native habitat. Don't allow capitalists to convince you that tree farms are a win for the environment. They most certainly are not.
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Since early June, a tree-sitter has been living in an old growth Douglas fir on Rainbow Ridge, a key logging area, attaching lines to neighboring trees to stop them from being felled by the Humboldt Redwood Company (HRC). Meanwhile, solidarity actions on the ground have blocked logging vehicles and workers while exposing the hypocrisy of HRC, a company that claims their industrial logging is âsustainable.â In reality, HRC not only logs old growth trees, a practice they claim to avoid due to sustainability reasons, but also practices a method of forestry known as hack-and-squirt. This refers to hacking around the base of an undesirable tree and then spraying pesticides into the opening. The goal is to get rid of trees that arenât economically viable and make room for tree farms that consist of tightly-packed rows of, typically, one type of tree. This practice is not only unsustainable, it decimates complex ecosystems through the use of pesticides and the construction of monoculture greenery that can not sustain diverse plant and animal life. Meanwhile, the dead or dying tree carcasses left in the wake of hack-and-squirt operations provide astonishingly dangerous kindling for wildfires in a state that has experienced two straight years of record-breaking forest fires. Indeed, apart from providing buffers against wildfires, natural and old growth forests act as heat sinks for extreme temperatures, clean the air, and provide us with that most precious and mistreated element, oxygen. In other words, the direct action work of blocking logging access and protecting these trees in the Mattole is vital. It is immediate, resolute and side-steps the pandering between industry and government.
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As forests succumb to ever-fiercer wildfires, the federal government and some adventurous private companies are trying to resuscitate an ind
Excerpt from this New York Times story:
When it came to wildfires, 2021 was an increasingly common kind of year in Montana: Flames consumed 747,000 acres, an area nearly the size of Long Island.
About 2,700 of those acres were on Don Harlandâs Sheep Creek Ranch, where ever-drier summers have turned lodgepole pines into matchsticks ready to ignite. After the smoke cleared, Mr. Harland found creeks running black with soot and the ground hardening more with every day that passed.
A former timber industry executive, Mr. Harland knew the forest wouldnât grow back on its own. The land is high and dry, the ground rocky and inhospitable â not like the rainy coastal Northwest, where trees grow thick and fast. Nor did he have the money to carry out a replanting operation, since growing for timber wouldnât pay for itself; most of the nearby sawmills had shut down long ago anyway. The state government offered a few grants, but nothing on the scale needed to heal the scar.
Then a local forester Mr. Harland knew suggested he get in touch with a new company out of Seattle, called Mast. After visiting to scope out the site, Mastâs staff proposed to replant the whole acreage, free, and even pay Mr. Harland a bit at the end. Mast, in turn, was to earn money from companies that wanted to offset their carbon emissions and would put millions of dollars into planting trees that otherwise wouldnât exist.
Mr. Harland said he had his doubts about the carbon-selling part of the plan, but he was impressed with Mastâs operations, so he said yes.
Two years later, after seeds had been collected from similar trees on nearby lands, crews of planters came out with bags full of seedlings, rapidly plunking them into the ashen ground. As part of the deal, Mr. Harland signed an agreement to let the trees grow for at least 100 years, so they can keep sucking greenhouse gases out of the air as they mature.
âThis is a big risk for them and for me,â Mr. Harland said about Mast. âBut there isnât a lot of options. It doesnât really matter whether you believe in global warming, or the carbon credits, or even what your politics are â what weâre doing is the right thing.â
Sheep Creek Ranch is one of Mastâs first projects, and the company has three more underway in Oregon and California. Plenty of other companies are enrolling forests in carbon offsets, too. But Mastâs founder, Grant Canary, has much bigger ambitions: His aim is to fix the whole supply chain for reforestation.
It wasnât always so difficult to plant trees on denuded land. In the decades when timber companies were rapidly clearcutting Western forests, they also had to rapidly replenish the supply, a need that supported a bustling industry of nurseries, seed collection and planting.
But as timber production slowed, the reforestation industry shrank with it. Nurseries closed or fell into disrepair, and skilled workers left the business.
That might not have been such a huge problem if climate change â and poor forest management â hadnât started to ravage Americaâs forests. Overcrowded by decades of fire suppression, dried out by drought and weakened by beetle infestations, forests now burn rapidly and so intensely that their natural ability to regenerate is vastly diminished.
Already in his 40s when he made this bet and planted this first crop of Norway Spruce, McGalliard was a forward thinking agrarian who went to business school before he began working with his father on the family farm. That year, he planted 25,000 trees, which would take seven years before the...
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