Schoolhouse fire logging

[turnkey4099]

Loads of Ponderosa pine (looks like virgin growth) logs now coming off of the huge Schoolhouse fire over by Pomeroy Wa (last year). Those logs are really nice but DIRTY! I can only imagine what a logger looks like at the end of the day.

I haven't heard of any of the usual econut objections to logging this burn, they must be asleep or something.

Harry K

 

[Newfie]

The econuts have probably been locked up in secret detention camps.:greenchainsaw:

 

[Reddog]

Like you worked in a coal mine. Nasty ride home.

 

[smokechase II]

logging after fires

There are a variety of ways that logging can occur in a timely manner after a fire.

One of them is where Bush signed into law an emergency provision where logging operations could go ahead, despite ongoing appeals etc, because of loss of timber values.

Sometimes no one disputes a logging sale as it could be a simple piece of paperwork called a CE that deals with something obvious like hazard tree removal next to roads. Usually no one wants to dispute that.

Sometimes an arrangement can be made where all sides get together and agree to a common ground set of ground rules.

In any case, it’s good to see that wood getting utilized reasonably quickly.

 

[Gologit]

Glad to see Washington is getting their burn salvage out in a timely manner. Its good that common sense prevails and that stuff gets to the mill before its useless. Down here we have protesters filing injunctions on stuff we've been trying to burn-salvage for three years. Guess what the logs look like by now. Falling,skidding,and hauling is expensive when all you have to show for it are piles of wood chips because everything is going cull.