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The article takes a long time to wind around to the point. It seems at first to be making simple point 'logging bad'. But then makes point that logging pre-19

The article takes a long time to wind around to the point. It seems at first to be making simple point 'logging bad'. But then makes point that logging pre-1990 was 'carbon neutral', and post-1990 the forest has dramatically switched to producing carbon. It doesn't make a clear point on how logging from 1990's to present changed to cause more of a problem, or how logging can change to compensate. So is it the logging? Then finally makes point that the changing climate has caused forest to not grow back, and/or to be dryer. So hotter dryer climate has impacted forest, not some recent change in how logging is done. It is a feedback problem. So it is really the combined cycle, climate change is impacting the forest, so forest is not rebounding from logging like it did in the 90s. From Article: "You can see how back in the 1990s, logging extracted about the same amount (brown) as the forest grew back (green). Maybe that could be considered carbon-neutral, depending on the conditions. But during the 2000s, logging extracted twice as much carbon as grew back. And since then, we’ve been logging a forest that isn’t growing back at all. That isn’t carbon-neutral."

cmrdporcupine 3y ago
I'm all fine with pointing fingers at the logging industry for bad practices. But I think it's questionable to implicate them on the whole in this summer's fires -- the bulk of the fires in northern Quebec, NWT, the Yukon, etc. are in areas that I don't believe have seen significant logging. They're on the whole extremely remote.
- Ensorceled 3y ago
  Yeah, the bulk of the fires were in areas that are "managed" only in the sense that there are regulations about whether, what and how you can log. That remoteness was a big part of the problem fighting these fires ... it's not like you could use an old logging road to get there.

cmrdporcupine 3y ago

I'm all fine with pointing fingers at the logging industry for bad practices. But I think it's questionable to implicate them on the whole in this summer's fires -- the bulk of the fires in northern Quebec, NWT, the Yukon, etc. are in areas that I don't believe have seen significant logging. They're on the whole extremely remote.

Ensorceled 3y ago
Yeah, the bulk of the fires were in areas that are "managed" only in the sense that there are regulations about whether, what and how you can log. That remoteness was a big part of the problem fighting these fires ... it's not like you could use an old logging road to get there.