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[at-l] Logging on the AT in Maine
A very good argument for the continuing of logging of the area. A
parallel would be the NPS & NFS's current policy of letting natural fires
burn.
It's all just the natural process of life.
> species in Maine are not the long-lived kinds you find in the west. If
you're
> in Maine woods with 80 year old trees, you are in rare company indeed.
There
> are individual old trees, (a 300 year old red oak in Alfred, for one) but
> with fire, disease, and weather, old age is uncommon.