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Originally Posted by Ravenflight
Why isn't the US Forestry Service doing something about this? I thought that was their job was to keep those logging roads open in our national forests and our National Parks nicely clearcut! I'm going to write my congressman about this dereliction of duty pronto!  |
I have seen "clearcut" used in two ways, first as complete removal of all trees (the point of your humor) and also as keeping the underbrush clear so that the trees can be healthy and avoid a lot of the fires that start from old dead wood at the base of trees. The latter is of course banned because of the environmentalists resulting in more uncontrollable forest fires each year.
Few remember that as recently as the end of the War of Northern Aggression (1861-1865) the state of Maine was almost completely devoid of trees as they had all been harvested for paper goods, furniture, ship building, housing, heating material, or cleared for farming.