Also redwoods used to spread much further up and down the coast, but colonizers cut a lot of them down and uncontrolled fires (largely caused by the colonizers) got the rest. A lot of the forests outside of the parks/wilderness areas are just tree farms anyway. Massive monoculture “forests” that only exist to be clear-cut.
The only reason the US has any old growth forests at all is people scrambling to protect them from the capitalists over the last 150 years or so and/or the land being nearly inaccessible to heavy machinery.
The worst part is the logging industry is horribly inefficient and designed to maximize short term profits. They’d be better off long-term using more sustainable approaches, but of course that won’t happen under capitalism.
Not me partly quitting school because I learned what I was studying was basically a 1 in a 10000 chance of getting a federal government job, or picking which trees get sold to be toilet paper (while working hand in hand with the federal gov to deforest “sustainably”)
Also redwoods used to spread much further up and down the coast, but colonizers cut a lot of them down and uncontrolled fires (largely caused by the colonizers) got the rest. A lot of the forests outside of the parks/wilderness areas are just tree farms anyway. Massive monoculture “forests” that only exist to be clear-cut.
The only reason the US has any old growth forests at all is people scrambling to protect them from the capitalists over the last 150 years or so and/or the land being nearly inaccessible to heavy machinery.
The worst part is the logging industry is horribly inefficient and designed to maximize short term profits. They’d be better off long-term using more sustainable approaches, but of course that won’t happen under capitalism.
Not me partly quitting school because I learned what I was studying was basically a 1 in a 10000 chance of getting a federal government job, or picking which trees get sold to be toilet paper (while working hand in hand with the federal gov to deforest “sustainably”)