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@@Mindcroscope now 375k

12 year later... xD

600k now

Source? I find this hard to believe.

@@shobuddy www.dec.ny.gov/lands/4982.html By the 1880s, less than 25% of New York State remained forested. www.dec.ny.gov/lands/309.html Today New York state is 63% forested - forests cover 18.9 million acres of our 30 million total acres. You can do your own research, I'm sure there are books on the subject. You could even go to your local woodlot and count the growth rings on a stump. If your in the Northeast and looking at the woods, know that the forest your looking at grew up in the last 100 years. It's common knowledge among the forestry community that the entire northeast was clear-cut in the 1800's and early 1900's. It is a shame that our forests (and the wildlife that depended on them) were wiped out by the early 1900's but it's an even bigger shame that nobody reports on the positive progress we have made! All of North America is much greener today than it was 100 years ago, we've developed forestry sciences that allow us to sustainably harvest lumber in such a way that it often actually benefits wildlife and other species that require more sunlight. The water quality across the country is so much better today than it was 100 years ago. Lake Erie was considered a "dead lake" in 70's, it still has it's problems, but the quality of Lake Erie's water today is the best it's been since the industrial revolution. For some reason nobody wants to believe that we have actually gotten better in many regards.

@@Creighster its not just about trees ! thats not just limited progress its destruction!

Aye. I live in the central adirondacks surrounded by 6 million acres of forest. I recall the Moose River Plains was logged out and sold to the state in the mid-1960's. Now, fifty years later its all grown back, protected as "forever wild" by the state constitution.

Imagine you have a million dollars, and then someone says "Hey, if you give me all of your money except for 1 dollar, I can make you 1000 times richer"... so you give him 999,999, then he gives you back 999 and says "there, see, you went from 1 to 1000!" Same basic concept here. Most americans have never seen a real forest.

Imagine the animal living and using the river as a home?

Im with ya man. Were all part of the long line of men, from the way long ago, to right here where we are now, working and building civilizations.

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there are some still on the Columbia River

Tugs now move barges up and down the river

Moosehead Lake has one I believe

Alaska or northern Canada.

It was very dangerous work though. Logging in general is very hazardous but being a river driver was right up there with being a soldier.

​@@JamesWillmusLumber is violent. I work in a lumber yard and I do my best to respect lumber. I can't imagine the dangers of controlling logs in a river.

I used to live in North Conway and I can remember times when you could smell the mill from there.

I do the modern day version of this job for a living, its not quite like this, theres a lot of chains and extremely gnarly work , were still out here to an extent. Im from British Columbia , Canada where are you from?

It's pulpwood for making paper.

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Joseph Astier - Shorter logs are easier to float down stream, rather than huge lumber that can cause build up and are are harder to control due to the weight

I get that....what the heck were they for? Railroad ties? Fuel?

Joseph Astier - Railroad ties, yes. Fuel sure. Depending on the wood they would use it for bowls and such. Transporting it to populated cities for expansion, all that jazz

Asian Artichoke pulp wood for paper newsprint

this is back when pulpwood was 5 feet long, so guys could tote it on their shoulder

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The benefits of log running don't magically make the negative impacts disappear. Two things can be true at once.

Hate to break it to you but the wood pulp for paper industry learned early that they would have to plant in order to stay in business. The world has 40% more forest than 40 years ago.

@@PhilJonesIII a bunch of trees is NOT a forest.

@@markschuette3770 40% increase NET worldwide. The world has more trees, a lot more trees. It's not all Amazon cut and burn you know. I'm not playing a one-upmanship game here but the media is very misleading on this subject. And 40% is not a small forest either.

@@markschuette3770 Umm yeah that's kind of what makes a forest. A bunch of trees.

@@mrcompatable nope- a forest is an ecosystem- water, oxygen, carbon sequestation, wildlife, recreation, other forest products, shade, etc. all of which are actually more valuable over time than tree harvesting for lumber.

Do you live in a house? Do you have furniture? Do you use paper? Trees are crops. They can be grown and harvested every 50 or so years. I spent 5 years running log trucks, and you would be hard pressed to find a group of people who cared more about preserving the forest than loggers. We grew up in the woods, we work in the woods. We hunt in the woods. The woods are our home. Loggers don’t want to destroy them.

@@Bob-ed9tc great reply👌🏻

Hug a few more trees