{"id":1921,"date":"2019-03-13T00:53:55","date_gmt":"2019-03-13T00:53:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1921"},"modified":"2019-03-13T00:56:41","modified_gmt":"2019-03-13T00:56:41","slug":"saving-old-growth-forests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1921","title":{"rendered":"Saving old-growth forests"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/earth-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1922\" srcset=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/earth-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/earth-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/earth.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I was reading part of this book tonight for research.  It noted that in the early 1980s, only 18,000 acres of <strong>old growth redwood forests<\/strong> in California were left &#8212; down from a high of 200,000 acres.  (And the guess is it&#8217;s even a lot less now.)  Besides a considerable amount of logging, the book noted that in the logging areas, thousands of footsteps (from the loggers, and such) have trampled vegetation and compacted the earth so that new trees can&#8217;t seed&#8230;  On a west coast research trip, in Brookings, Oregon, we interviewed a &#8220;<strong>forestry technician&#8221; <\/strong>who opined that we leave the old growth forests (redwoods or otherwise) alone, log others, and what&#8217;s more, start providing governmental subsidies for more tree farms.  He said, currently, forestry technicians like himself are busy trying to reverse some of the latter environmental damage, while yet others are continually monitoring endangered species in the old-growth forests where the logging is going on.  He added that common sense would say that if you leave the old-growth forests alone, it would free up <em>a lot <\/em>of this manpower and, well, keep the old growth forests healthy and intact.  For our position paper on the Environment, including a section that addresses this kind of &#8216;arbor issue,&#8217; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.voteforjoe.com\/environment-ckji\">see&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was reading part of this book tonight for research. It noted that in the early 1980s, only 18,000 acres of old growth redwood forests in California were left &#8212; down from a high of 200,000 acres. (And the guess <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1921\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1921"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1924,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1921\/revisions\/1924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}