afm199
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There is still old growth up in mendicino, I watched a video of some guys cutting a huge redwood tree, had a huge saw with something like a 48 to 60in bar and a 40ton hydraulic jack to get it pointed the right way. Comments equated cutting it down to murder, but thats where wood comes from and the trees dont live forever. The spotted owl and tripple dicked salamander stopped a lot of logging. Once the logging business got pooched the only thing to keep a lot of communities alive was weed.
Good info here about treating wood, sorry if I rant.
Yes, there are actually some trees LEFT. The trees live 500-700 years, some of the coastal trees are over 2,000 years old. That's what you want to cut down. A tree that was alive when Jesus was. Think about it. Old growth is OLD. If you cut it down it is GONE. It WON'T come back. So basically you want to cut down one of the oldest living species on the planet to build a deck. O, and trees do live forever. They seed and keep going, if you don't log them. If you log them, they are gone. 96% of the old growth trees have been logged.
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