interesting makes me wonder the same

Right. I agree. Mt St Helens has taught us a lot.

From seeing the recovery of St. Helens, I can say safely that the recovery is much faster than I thought. In about 40 years, the plant life around the mountain has recovered significantly. I would confidently say that in 300 years, the trees will cover most of the pumice plains, and the lower areas of the mountain itself. It will not seem barren like it does now. The crater may not recover for a long time, but i am open to surprises. :)

Trust the scientists. They have no reason to lie to you. If you think they do, it must suck being you.

@@qpwodkgh2010 so should have the Germans in the 1930s trusted their scientists when they stated that the Jews were of an inferior race because eugenics proves it? Should the public have trusted the scientists who created nuclear weapons as a means of self defense? Should the folks in the 80s have trusted the scientists who predicted that we would have an ice age in the early 2000s? Should the public trusted the scientists who were paid by tobacco companies to say that cigarettes did not cause cancer? There's two type of scientists I don't trust. The one's who have a clear agenda with zero ethics. And the ones who think they are highly ethical in their statements but don't admit that they can be wrong. I don't feel bad that you feel that way about me. I feel more bad for you who believes everything the "experts" tell you. I bet you don't trust every politician, even if they have preparation and an education. I bet you don't trust every doctor because of the clear evidence of big pharma that keeps people unhealthy and in debt. Why would you trust every source without questioning their legitimacy? That's what I find sad of you.

Well, I grew up in Oregon (and took classes in environmental management - long ago) and unfortunately clear cutting is common (easier then the older version of selecting certain trees, and cost effecient). We depend on WOOD, Paper and other products made from trees. (although now hopefully some is recycled!) Earlier in America ENTIRE species were WIPED out from the demand on natural forest. (certain types of Chestnut trees, Oaks and Maples many others) Later laws created a better balance. There are many other species that are destoyed esp Tropical forest (and each area has specific flora and fauna all destroyed as the creatures depend on the plant life) and so once gone gone forever. People around the world that want products from these places aid in their destruction (and attempts at "cattle farming" proved a disaster - the soil was thin and nothing else would grow on it) (roots of these trees shallow).

If you watch, you can see the replanted trees grow after the clear cutting. Weyerhaeuser replants the clear cut. Not saying they’re perfect, but logging today is done more sustainably today (speaking in the US) than decades past.

Do you find it painful to realize your house is made of trees?

Then don't watch. You have that choice.

Trees are a renewable resource

I agree that it should be banned in certain areas (was active in Oregon for ages - but the Timber Industry usually wins out because of the DEMAND by the "collective".) We all use trees. It happens to our American Forest all over (many from early America extinct!!! (some from imports that carried insects not native to our flora and went extinct - some cutting every last tree down) I recall the Redwood Forest in CA - and hiking along - nice stand of the oldest living thing on Earth, walk a tad beyond and these giant trees were stumps!!! (used for HOUSING!) Big backlash to at least preserve a small tad! We all are involved (you know YOUR house, YOUR paper products so on - the wood and by products - paper comes from trees. NOT due to activism - many are grown on land for that purpose - tree harvesting from crops like any other crop). Lived in S Oregon and one can see the squares from this clear cutting. Not as horrific but better then in the past (early America) when the ENTIRE forest was removed (along with other flora and fauna that depended on these trees) (Ditto for the Tropical forest around the world)

Interesting how they held off cutting 300 year old trees for the "owners" of the company..... How about making it a public sanctuary..??

Renewable resource. It grows back.

Usually I would make a crack about how that is a fine sentiment if you don't mind going without toilet paper...but never mind.

Logging in Oregon got shut down completely. There is no longer any balance it completely swung from one extreme to the other. Right and wrong should be exchanged for tug and pull. And for pull not to show up to meet tug any longer life becomes chaotic and imbalanced. We could of done a much better job in Oregon; now all our forests are overrun and matchbox prone and no longer any roads created and maintained to slow fires down when they start. The list goes on. It's not all rainbows when you end logging. It's not all rainbows when you let logging companies go willy Billy. People want to complain about the trees and animal displacement. What about when you don't use Logs? Resin compounds, plastics, petroleums, metals. How can logging make people sad when it can regrow while other methods don't regrow and cause equal if not more damage? It seems like a large percentage of the people arguing about logging don't have the slightest clue about the environment and they can claim they are siding with nature and science but their ignorance and lack of research shows in bright colors. Completely going off emotion (far too many people with more influence / louder opinions that have even less wherewithal than I) Not directing to the original commenter just something I felt like sharing here.

@@coleman318 My Father was a forester for Weyerhauser in the 1950's and 1960's, an old-school Democrat. I believe he would agree with most of what you said.

You think if Blueseaview22 was correct he would actually say something logical that we could somehow talk about. Not just vomit his shadow in massive projection through comments on KZfaq. Luckily when people get angry and go to insult another person they usually point out their insecurities and flaws and label that other person as the very thing they are.

That was all I could focus on.

You guys didn't care when the volcano did it. It's actually healthy to do this and keeps it all from burning down to nothing. It allows undergrowth to see the sun to ensure a strong future for future trees. This is why Superblooms happen. Nature has a backup plan for everything we can throw at it and that it throws at itself. If you can't see the recovery after destruction after the volcano and how resilient it is then, I can't help you. There is more to a forest's sustainability than how it looks.

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Nighmare for the natural balance and eco system. Nature knows how to restart and has been doing so sucessfully long before human kind. Volcanoes enrich the soil as well.

And now many of those tree farms are ready to re-harvest, saving pristine forest. Here's a question for the habitually unproductive. Since the green crowd and the lockdown crowd are one in the same. How many trees were cut down to make useless paper masks? And how many of those masks are now litter?

@@steveadams7870 Very few trees are being used for making masks. Most masks are actually plastic, not paper. If they were paper, they’d likely disintegrate in water within a couple months, which they don’t.

@@coveredinmoss Steve suffers from cognitive dissonance. Do not engage.

@@coveredinmoss Much paper is from recyling. Most of the mask were paper AND having studied plastics in the arts the toxins to produce plastic (made from OIL btw) and refuse is horrific. (ocean ships dump their refuse at sea, plastics then eaten by sea life, turtles others and choke to death. It takes hundreds of years to break down (although some now are made to disinegrate faster)

@@steveadams7870 I studied this area at S. Oregon when in college (environmental management where the forest ferns and wildlife were key issues, along with water systems). First these "farms" are staggered (on average 9-10 years before harvest). When buying paper products CHECK the label - "made from recycled paper"!!! Otherwise many species of beautiful trees are destroyed for what (or yeah since the computer who needs it???) (aspen eucalyptus, maples, birch, aspen, and oaks) Beautiful areas along CA Coast Eucalyptus - most now extinct! Better MHO then clear cutting trees hundreds of years old! Christmas trees are grown in this manner (better then cutting down our pine forest or what's left of them) There is only a minute amount of the once vast range of Redwood forest (and other trees) in N CA - thousands of years old (oldest living thing on earth now). Clear cut to almost extinction. (small amount saved to to "outcries". All to make HOUSES!!! That was long before the "green crowd" (what ever that means).

@Jeff Rock And TIME!

No "theory" and mostly in swamp, bog areas BUT - OVER hundreds of millions of years!!! (longest of any rock formation). (I had to take Geology and thought UGH but turns out to be very interesting - from water systems, rocks - mountains and other envoronments) (Coal can be made from any plant life) and a process at that (where PEAT bogs come from - peat is a step further down from coal). IT is considered a "non renewable resource" because it takes multi millions of years to produce. Luckily few nations use coal (overseas nations still do) Charcoal is a different matter.

Not even ash that dude was completely vaporized

Not how it happened at all! Two people died and WERE miles from St. Helens. But not VAPORIZED at all (easy to research but I was in S. Oregon, Sisters in WA at the time) And don't forget David A. Johnson (geologist monitoring the activity" and his statement "Vancouver, Vancourver, This is it! (body never found) Observatory named in his honor. (One death: Landsburg - he was able to make it to his car "snapping images along the way" but obviously at 400 mph the ash and toxic gasses overcame him. Official. "Death by asphyxiation by volcanic ash near his station wagon parked near Sheep Canyon in the upper South Fork of the Toutle River - FOUR miles form Mt. St. Helens" (Source That Oregon Life - but many other sources) He continued "shooting from his car window as the pyroclastic wall of ash approached" his car. Final roll, he rewound it put it in its canister then in his backpack (and almost makes me cry) "THREW his body on top of it, effectively shielding the delicate film from what was to come"!!! (like the war photographers!) His images show the oncoming super heated blast coming his way!!! (600 F and traveling 300 mph full of stones and other items) Photojournalist Reid Blackburn - 8 miles away - on assignment for his newspaper (The Columbian) as well National Geographic. Changed his plans to leave and decided "to stick around for a few more days to see what transpired" Campsite at Coldwater Creek and like Lansburg "his vehicle was the only option for shelter from the blast) (which of course was blasted!!!) His car was discovered burried under near pyroclastic flow! (windows busted open - no one would have survived these blasts. (more powerful then the Atomic bombs) His film of the blast was destroyed by the blast, but unknown previous images from a helicopter were discovered. (undeveloped film) (pre eruption) As well archives from The Columbian - took 30 years for much to be developed) (and in total 57 or so people) (many refused to leave)

@Flavius Stilicho Or some tree-huger pissed about all the clear-cuts popping up everywhere.

Usually most dislikes are made by spambots, not real people.

@blueseaview 22 You know me so well, Troll.

I wish nature would get way more credit for healing itself than what any people could plant.

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Everyone uses trees and paper - try to buy "recycled" (studied this decades ago at Sourthern Oregon - environmental mangement) At least now "tree farms" (many species of trees MANY went extinct in early America due to this callousness!)

@@sazure2 here in Oklahoma there used to be wild persimmon & wild PawPaw trees all over and now you rarely see them. The United States used to have wild chestnut trees all across the country and we nearly wiped them out. I learned that about the chestnuts in a deer management study

Rather than watching it for spongebob fan fiction

There is habitat loss all over America - look at a map of early America before we came along. We are now in a 6th mass extinction (from small sub forms to mammals) I studied this long ago but many many species of trees (and other flora and fauna) extinct because of our leveling land to build cities and subburbs! (and plant GRASS!!!) Prairies gone so is the prarie dogs (but much effort to preserve and rebuild these lands now). And many other environmental types long ago destroyed.