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I’d want to understand better the economics of eliminating logging on state lands, as well as what it does, or doesn’t, do for the health of the forest over time, before embracing that aspect of your proposal. But planting more trees I can easily support. There is a cost to it, both in the planting and ongoing pruning and maintenance, but the benefits you mention definitely seem worth it.
I am not sure that logging is needed, but some kind of forestry management is needed.
I did not think this was really necessary until I saw some pictures of Philmont Boy Scout ranch in New Mexico and the results of a wildfire there last year. Areas where trees had been thinned (not necessarily logged), the fire burnt along the ground and new growth was sprouting after first rain. Areas that had not been thinned, wildfires blazed in the crown of the trees and the areas were completely scorched and will need to be replanted to recover in our lifetimes.
At Ransburg Scout Reservation, here in Indiana, two years ago they did some logging but mainly thinned trees for the first time in 50 years. Having attended summer camp there for the last 30 years, I was amazed at the amount and new kinds of wildlife that I had never seen before and this was just two years after what I realize was some long overdue thinning.
I am now a believer, If you want to call it logging, or forestry management, it needs to happen to encourage biodiversity and keep the forest healthy.