Ramping Up Logging

[wowzers]

The amount of lawfare some of you guys describe being waged in courts against even small-scale tracts of land to get logged is extremely interesting - I didn't realize it was so systemic, organized, and methodical. It's pretty damned disturbing.

It's because the Equal Access to Justice Act allows them to make money doing it.

 

[BigredRusch]

Not trying to hijack the thread but I think we all need to be more concerned about the sale of public land than we do with public land logging.

 

[dr.mooseknuckles]

To answer the original question, I think it will only help. New browse forms after clear cuts, allowing for new growth, thicker cover and vegetation.

The NF I hunt here in SC is logged all of the time on different tracts. Haven't seen anything bigger than a 30 acre clear cut. Replanted and thick as all get out in 5 years time. Great bedding habitat for deer with plenty of browse. Can be tricky hunting it, but can also be very rewarding. They burn huge sections of it at a time and generally helps out the turkey and quail. I've seen some pretty big wild bobwhite coveys over the years in this NF. I've also gotten pictures of really nice bucks over the years, just haven't gotten a picture of me holding one!

 

[RockAndSage]

It's because the Equal Access to Justice Act allows them to make money doing it.

Oh, now that's incredibly interesting...

 

[cnelk]

Nothing like new clearcuts to have good elk and deer hunting - at least that’s what I experience in N Colorado.

In the past couple years there’s been several hundred acres of clear cuts logged.

 

[riversidejeep]

It's because the Equal Access to Justice Act allows them to make money doing it.

I'm no legal scholar but it seems that a way to fix this is that if suit is brought against the USA by some enviro law firm that the judgement can go both ways. If the USA loses the case they pay the lawyers and court cost, same goes if USA wins, they get lawyer fees and court cost. As it is now they file a 100 lawsuits and maybe get one to stick.