There’s insufficient information to assess the propriety of the judgment. The judge says they violated the conservation deal. What was the deal, did they voluntarily enter into it?
I lowered my anti-advertising shields, allowing connections to 15 or so skanky tracking sites and watched a commercial, all for a couple of slides and almost no actual information. Won’t do that again.
Good point about the voluntary angle.
Our son lived in NH for a few years. The state law was such that permission must be obtained to cut any tree on your land plus for every tree cut … to build a home or outdoor building etc… a seedling had to be planted.
I think anyone who is a descendant of lumberjacks should have to pay arboreal reparations to any trees who are descendants of trees that were cut down. Clearly, we humans need to recognize our animalia privilege and do what we can to repay our debt to the modern day members of the plant community who started out in life with a systemic disadvantage.
Seriously though, that’s just plain tyrannical. They care more about old trees than they do about people.
A bit of Scott’s “tongue in cheek” comments there.
They care for trees and many other things more than babies…
Oh, by the by, my dad and his family were lumberjacks in the winter to supplement their farm, and he and my mom did the same until we kids came. My husband is a forester and his job was growing new trees as for every tree cut, five or more were planted. People forget about all the products they use every come from wood and it IS a renewable resource, as far as those everyday products are concerned as they come, for the most part, from poplar trees, which grow very fast with new trees “sucker” off the roots. Not too long after a thinning, you will see lots of “babies” popping up all over.
I’m from an old logging town myself, though it’s fallen on economic hard times over the last few decades. One important note: yes, wood is 100% renewable, though the products and tools used to process it are not necessarily. I remember hearing somewhere that making a paper bag is actually a lot worse for the environment than making a plastic bag.
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There’s insufficient information to assess the propriety of the judgment. The judge says they violated the conservation deal. What was the deal, did they voluntarily enter into it?
I lowered my anti-advertising shields, allowing connections to 15 or so skanky tracking sites and watched a commercial, all for a couple of slides and almost no actual information. Won’t do that again.
Good point about the voluntary angle.
Our son lived in NH for a few years. The state law was such that permission must be obtained to cut any tree on your land plus for every tree cut … to build a home or outdoor building etc… a seedling had to be planted.
I think anyone who is a descendant of lumberjacks should have to pay arboreal reparations to any trees who are descendants of trees that were cut down. Clearly, we humans need to recognize our animalia privilege and do what we can to repay our debt to the modern day members of the plant community who started out in life with a systemic disadvantage.
Seriously though, that’s just plain tyrannical. They care more about old trees than they do about people.
A bit of Scott’s “tongue in cheek” comments there.
They care for trees and many other things more than babies…
Oh, by the by, my dad and his family were lumberjacks in the winter to supplement their farm, and he and my mom did the same until we kids came. My husband is a forester and his job was growing new trees as for every tree cut, five or more were planted. People forget about all the products they use every come from wood and it IS a renewable resource, as far as those everyday products are concerned as they come, for the most part, from poplar trees, which grow very fast with new trees “sucker” off the roots. Not too long after a thinning, you will see lots of “babies” popping up all over.
I’m from an old logging town myself, though it’s fallen on economic hard times over the last few decades. One important note: yes, wood is 100% renewable, though the products and tools used to process it are not necessarily. I remember hearing somewhere that making a paper bag is actually a lot worse for the environment than making a plastic bag.