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Show Stop forest clear cutting Pacific Lumber, like any other logging log-ging company, should be restricted by law from having the choice of clear-cutting. It increases erosion and water run-off, taking off the top soil that contains minerals necessary for growth. This makes tree regeneration extremely difficult. Ted Parkin Bountiful Dear Editor: The United States was covered with forests when the first settlers came to the new country. They used trees for building homes, and through the times, as more people came, the demand for trees grew. Tree logging became a business for some Americans to provide timber for the growing country. They continued con-tinued to cut down forests without the notion that one day the trees would be gone. Today, the last remaining re-maining Redwood groves are located on the northwest coast. It would be best to stop cutting down the last remaining groves of trees that we have, but we are still dependent on wood for construction. construc-tion. My concern is of the logging companies that use clear-cutting as a method of mass producing lumber. Clear-cutting is the process of taking all timber as you come to it, whether used or not used, from a grove of trees. This method is used, because it is most efficient and less costly. Probably the best example of this is Pacific Lumber Company. After October of 1985, the year Charles Harwitz's Maxxom group took over, Pacific Lumber Company has turned to clear-cutting to increase money flow. By doing this they are destroying groves that have taken centuries to grow. Before the takeover, take-over, Pacific Lumber practiced selective dunning. They took only as much as it could replace, being environmentally concerned. In the past, Pacific Lumber's selective thinning was respected by environmentalists. Today, Pacific Lumber is under -much criticism, even among their own employees. |