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The Scouts own 1500 acres on lake Monroe, Ransburg Scout Reservation. About 5 years ago they began controlled removal of large trees and used a shredder to clear out excessive undergrowth. At first I thought this was awful, after attending summer camp there for more than 40 years, in the last 4 years I have seen wildlife, and more diversity in the wildlife than in the previous 31 years. I am not sure, but I suspect that even the plant diversity has increased.
I am now a complete believer in proper forestry management and the last 100 years of complete fire suppression is not the way a natural forest exists.
I also think what most people don’t realize is that Hoosier National Forest came about from the Great Depression, when all of those hills were clear cut, and hard scrabble farmers all went bankrupt or were bought out by the state of Indiana on land that was not productive enough to support anybody. So this was all clear cut and barren at one point , and the forestry service actions are still a long way from that environmental and economic disaster.