forestry stuff (sorry, got a bit carried away)

that is great emil. there is not much interesting stuff like that happening here. too busy at uni (and rather sick of it). although there was quite an interesting panel discussion about how to best emulate natural disturbances so to best manage for biodiversity and timber. what gets me though, is all this academia. i know we need academia to come up with all the clever stuff so that politicians and natural resource managers can make the best decisions. but what good is it when they say that we need to keep more snags cos it is better for biodiversity. sure, that is right, but how about telling that to the loggers out there and the MNR. they are not gonna jeopardies the safety of the workers when logging is already such a dangerous occupation and people die of snags. but since the forestry industry in ontario only contribute to 2% of the total "income" of the province, maybe we should just shut it all down and make it all into reserves. i mean, 2% is hardly anything compared to BC's 34%. so just make the whole of ontarios boreal into one big reserve, that is my best suggestion.