You call madrone a weed while revereing Doug Fir.....
Was Council Madrone a weed?
I'm going to hope it's just your area's ecosystem, because here the firs are the weeds, as well as the cedars and plants pines' babies. While I like old growth tan oak, I can accept their weedy-youngins bad behaviors.
Just FYI, both tan oak and madrone can be made into flooring or beams. Seen some nice madrone poles for support posts/beams in houses.
Regarding forest salvage, how about when USFS backburns tens of thousands of acres unnecessarily so they can go in and punch roads and salvage log tree that would not have burnt from the wildfire itself? (August Complex North and West)
How about when salvage loggers log a subdivision then leave the logs on the ground and refuse to remove them, leaving it up to the owners and at their own expense?
Many, many sides to this story.
ahwight, I'll throw the troll a bone.
You say Doug Fir is a weed? Yet it valuable in most of the world, not just the PNW or I ass-u-me South Humboldt county as your handle implies, where infact it is commercially logged, its just not as common as redwoods, cedars or the relatively valueless sugar pines.
As for Madrone being a weed, ya it pretty much is, grows all over the coast around here, yet there is literally 0 comercial mills that accept it, including NW hardwoods. Furthermore I've never seen it as an option for any sort of building material, let alone a specialty wood for crazy people. Which I include myself in cause I'm trying to source some now for a guitar project, yet its a whole bunch of swinging and missing.
As for the rest of your post, maybe change your point of view, I highly doubt the FS back burned "10's of thousands of acres" just so they could salvage log it, since its a massive PITA to get a salvage logging go ahead through the legal mine field that is logging FS ground, let alone the legal backlash they would face for intentionally burning said acreage in the first place.
For logging and leaving the logs, couple of things could be happening here, trucking isn't some magical snap your fingers and its done, there is a limited amount of trucks, and a limited amount of mills available to haul logs, could be them logs are just waiting to get hauled, or the homeowner was asked to schedule a self loader, which is an even smaller resource. Or because of all the fire salvage, the mills available have put quota's on how much wood they can accept in a day, and these private plots end up taking a back seat. Or the logs are garbage, for multiple reasons, rot, fire damage, to small, too crooked, diseased etc, that its simply not worth hauling them, so the safe thing to do, in all scenarios is to stack up the dangerous trees where they can't do much harm and either they become fire wood, or they rot in peace, cause if left standing, the will dry out, and burn that much hotter in the next fire.
