Yeah, they live and die, self prune. I'm talking about management versus no management. Strategic management can achieve better results/less catastrophe.
Ya true. Coming up in the not-too-distant future I'm going to spend a day with them and follow one from scratch all the way to completion in one video.
It was a generalization. A somewhat bitter one from past experience. So called environmentalists hamper the management of forests (always wanting everything left alone) to the point that overcrowding helps the beetles, and wildfires, especially in a drought.
Screaming, "no don't cut anything"...
8 hrs
Ya drought combined with overcrowding makes them weak for beetle.
Like wolves on caribou.
Environmentalists killed them.
It's a tree mans gold rush.
Woodpeckers will nostalgically chirp about these boom years centuries from now.