Enough is enough. Those of us who live at the foot of the Black Hills see the destruction of the Capitol Forest. The clear cutting results in balds, areas that are then subject to mudslides. Let's not forget that thousands of animals: deer, elk, birds, reptiles...depend on the forest.
What the DNR is doing is NOT "proper management'. That term means selective cutting, not wholesale eradication of acres of trees. And the after math is piles of slash left to create a fire hazard (one of which happened just last fall, just below Capitol Peak), erosion, loss of habitat, etc. It's not replanted in trees. It's allowed to go to scotch broom.
Those posters who sneer at 'tree hugging activists' are just another example of people who just don't get it. Or who are making a lot of money despoiling the environment. Or maybe are living in their car.
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