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This is also why we have more fires now: because public forests are not logged anymore, so fuel accumulates.

• illiac786 4y ago
  No, fires happen because forests are now made solely of trees, whereas a forest normally has multiple layers, allowing it to retain moisture much better. Of course, climate change and human stupidity are very strong factors as well. Having a fully matured forest takes hundreds of years. Logging it on a regular basis make sure this never happens and also reduces the overall carbon sequestration. This lead to the interesting conundrum which is that even though the actual number of trees is growing, carbon sequestration is going down in forests. (Apologies, unable to find the link about the carbon sequestration decreasing for decades, if someone has it please post, I need to bookmark it.)
  • hulitu 4y ago
    The difference between a forest and a tree plantation: in a forest the soil is wet, in a tree plantation it is dry.