Re: “Lands commissioner’s logging ‘pause’ upsets a careful calculation” (Jan. 31, Opinion):
The editorial on the current pause on logging of older forests and its “upset” of calculations of revenues for rural faculties and authorities gave me pause, as effectively. I puzzled what sort of an training our adults have had over the course of their lives that perpetuates the phantasm that we will proceed to make the most of dwindling pure sources as we did 50 years or a century in the past. I’m a trainer myself, so this isn’t a disparaging query.
Whether or not anybody has seen, we’re within the midst of a number of crises of a world scale — neglect about our political earthquake right here at house. We now have a mass extinction disaster, a biodiversity disaster in addition to the local weather disaster. Our forests will not be static. Over the subsequent 50 years, the zones the place our iconic Douglas fir discover appropriate habitat are predicted to shift radically and quickly to the extent that minimizing danger of catastrophic failure and assisted migration are the brand new insurance policies being referred to as upon. We have to have a look at the large image, pause and recalculate.
Thanks to Washington State Lands Commissioner Dave Upthegrove for seeing the forest by the bushes.
Erin Gubelman, Seattle
