Hello from Las Cruces NM…

[Dale72]

In Arizona, the forestry department has never suggested clear-cutting. Instead they have been trying to develop a commercial business around removing the small trees and leaving the big ones. But it seems that this is not an economically viable business model so it has failed. In the mean time they focus on planned burns like the one that got out of hand near Los Vegas, NM.

The attitude in the Arizona mountains is completely different than in California. Whereas Californians are still hugging the trees and brush (doing virtually nothing, even after the big Camp fire), Arizonans have been busy working on clearing fire-breaks and making properties fire-wise.

Hopefully New Mexico will now wake up and make sure that everything does not burn in a big ball of flame.

In the mean time, keep a "go" (or "bug out") bag in the Jeep and be ready to depart at any time.

Yeah they don't want to spend the money to clear cut to help prevent the fires. But then they start bitching when everything goes up in flames

 

[OverlanderJK]

Yeah they don't want to spend the money to clear cut to help prevent the fires. But then they start bitching when everything goes up in flames

Clear cutting is a horrible idea and one that has never been and should never be recommended.

 

[Dale72]

Clear cutting is a horrible idea and one that has never been and should never be recommended.

They use it in Mississippi and Alabama along with controlled burns and we don't have wild fires

 

[OverlanderJK]

They use it in Mississippi and Alabama along with controlled burns and we don't have wild fires

You also have 30” of rain a year. Clear cutting is a horrible idea. Period. I’m guessing you have clear cutting mixed up with another term.

 

[Dale72]

You also have 30” of rain a year. Clear cutting is a horrible idea. Period. I’m guessing you have clear cutting mixed up with another term.

No I don't. That's what they call it down here when they go in and clear out the dead trees. They do that along with controlled burns. They do that about once a year

 

[Dale72]

You also have 30” of rain a year. Clear cutting is a horrible idea. Period. I’m guessing you have clear cutting mixed up with another term.

Plus we have a lot of paper and lumber mills in the southeast also.

 

[bobfriesenhahn]

They use it in Mississippi and Alabama along with controlled burns and we don't have wild fires

Those states are almost totally flat so erosion is not so much of a problem after many trees have been cut.

 

[bobfriesenhahn]

No I don't. That's what they call it down here when they go in and clear out the dead trees. They do that along with controlled burns. They do that about once a year

To the rest of us "clear cutting" means logging where no trees at all are left behind.

 

[BlacknRedJK]

Welcome from Utah

 

[Dale72]

To the rest of us "clear cutting" means logging where no trees at all are left behind.

Over here that's called logging or harvesting. And with in about 2 weeks after they have harvested that plot of land they are replanting trees.

 

[Dale72]

To the rest of us "clear cutting" means logging where no trees at all are left behind.

And when they do go into harvest the trees in a certain area they don't cut everything down. People go in a few weeks in advance and mark the trees that are to be cut

 

[OverlanderJK]

No I don't. That's what they call it down here when they go in and clear out the dead trees. They do that along with controlled burns. They do that about once a year

Over here that's called logging or harvesting. And with in about 2 weeks after they have harvested that plot of land they are replanting trees.

As I said, you have the term wrong. Just because people use the incorrect term doesn’t mean that’s what it’s called.

 

[Dale72]

As I said, you have the term wrong. Just because people use the incorrect term doesn’t mean that’s what it’s called.

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It means different things in different areas