To the editor: The examine referenced on this article (“Non-public land used for logging is extra vulnerable to extreme fireplace than public lands. A brand new examine exhibits why,” Aug. 21) highlights how clear-cut logging transforms pure forests into flammable industrial tree farms. For that reason and others, a poll proposition in California in 1990 referred to as for a statewide ban on the follow. It was, sadly, roundly defeated due partly to a well-funded and polished opposition marketing campaign by the timber and agricultural industries.
Had voters listened extra to the environmental coalition that authored the proposition, the devastation left within the wake of latest fires just like the Camp (2018) and Dixie (2021) fires, which raged via industrial tree farms, could by no means have occurred.
Thinker George Santayana famously acknowledged, “Those that don’t study from historical past are doomed to repeat it.” Now’s the time to heed these prophetic phrases and ban clear-cutting perpetually.
Jennifer Normoyle, Hillsborough, Calif.
