The following “guest essay” in New West is by Dr. Chad Hanson, a Ph.D. in Ecology from the University of California at Davis.
My view is that the logging industry has always used forest fires to try to stampede people into supporting policies that are bad for the forests, the environment, and most people except the logging company executives.
Logging Industry Misleads on Climate and Forest Fires. By Chad Hanson, Ph.D. New West.
The net effect of most logging is to increase the release of greenhouse gases.
Regrowth after a forest fire results in more update in carbon dioxide than regrowth after logging.
Ralph Maughan
Dr. Ralph Maughan is professor emeritus of political science at Idaho State University with specialties in natural resource politics, public opinion, interest groups, political parties, voting and elections. Aside from academic publications, he is author or co-author of three hiking/backpacking guides, and he is past President of the Western Watersheds Project and the creator of The Wildlife News.
