Bonaro no one has called this old growth - sadly logging has mostly eliminated that in our state - at this point all we can save is second growth or what is called Legacy Forest - trees 80, 100 and sometimes 120 years old. It is true that DNR has turned most of the rest of Capital forest into plantation forest - which is the whole point of this suit - to preserve what little we have left. Older trees draw down and store much more carbon than younger trees so this is also a climate issue. Thus it is not best practices to log older forests. I very much appreciate that our commissioners have been having to fight DNR to try to protect what we have left.
We can have all the wood we need from the plantation forests already in our state (especially if 80% of private logging was not be exported out of Port of Olympia to other countries. You name call and then say this is getting old. I think it is your out dated ideas about logging that is getting old.
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