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Wow, when you look a bit further south it seems like the entire state is being eaten little by little: https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.943860,+-123.486175/
by ricardobeat 7y ago
Wow, when you look a bit further south it seems like the entire state is being eaten little by little: https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.943860,+-123.486175/@46.9213538,-123.4889211,10z/data=!3m1!1e3 https://www.google.com/maps/place/46.943860,+-123.486175/@46...
- lawkwok 7y agoThat is scary. I zoomed in expecting to see farmland but instead they were bald patches. Just like male pattern baldness by the time you notice it, the process is already well underway.
- novaleaf 7y agoYes it's ugly, but much better to clear cut pockets every couple decades than to clearcut everything to turn into farm land.
- ricardobeat 7y agoThese forests take a lot longer than a couple decades to recover.
- fraserharris 7y agoOn Vancouver Island the harvesting cycle is 40 - 50 years. Trees grow fast with reasonable temperatures with lots of rain.
- novaleaf 7y agoIn Washington I think the cycle is similar for hardwoods. Wherhauser is a pretty good steward of their land, as that's really the only "asset" they have.
- splicer 7y agoSame with Vancouver Island: https://goo.gl/maps/aXADesFXHUbyjPMw8 https://goo.gl/maps/aXADesFXHUbyjPMw8