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NotActuallyALonghorn

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  1. So, your working theory is that all of the people who work for the USFS, who went to college for forestry because they love nature and being in the forests and want to keep them forever because they are the best thing ever in their minds are just going to suddenly decide that sustainable management isn't really all that important and who cares if we lose our national forests that they have spent their whole lives trying to build? Did you actually read the executive order? Because they would all have to be complicit for your doomsday scenario to play out. As stated earlier, the choke point is our sawmill capacity. if we are running at full capacity, soliciting more bids for a supply of a natural resource without and increased demand for it will likely only lead to a slight increase in USFS land timber harvesting combined with a general decrease in the price of timber for private growers. Great for the sawmills, not good for private landowners growing timber. But the sky isn't actually falling. It's a stupid EO, but it isn't likely to lead to the doomsday scenario that it has been touted as.
  2. I assume you mean the treeline in the background. They are mostly brown because shade intolerant species are generally self pruning once the canopy closure stage is reached. For the unfamiliar, this basically means that lower branches don't get enough sunlight once the trees in the stand grow tall enough to shade them out and they die. This is a pretty typical growth pattern for most conifers. Some of them are all brown because they aren't used to getting that much sunlight and are basically the tree version of sunburned. As far as natural old growth forest being uneven aged stands, that is a pretty sweeping statement, and generally a wrong one for a lot of if not most shade intolerant species. The natural succession for conifers (and some others) in the west is a catastrophic fire take out whole swaths of forest. But the trees are ready for that and have mechanisms to reestablish themselves after the fire. Some of them actually depend on fire to open up their cones and release seeds, so fire is necessary. Then a whole even aged stand of timber grows in place. Way too many tree by modern standards. We thin out trees and sell them for pulp in the south to reduce the number of stems per acre, but the USFS generally practices natural regeneration. The way that works is eventually the stronger trees choke out the weaker trees and the weaker ones die. In the south they make a snag and provide habitat for a lot of animals and bugs and stuff until they fall down and rot. In the west, they just kind of hang out and create fuel ladders until another fire sweeps through and starts the whole process over. Done properly, clear cutting mimics this natural process and instead of converting the wood into carbon dioxide, it sequesters it into the walls of the houses built out of it. Obviously done properly is key here, but do you really think a bunch of USFS employees who have dedicated their lives to growing sustainable forests because that is something they love are just gonna say screw it, let's just turn it all into a moonscape?
  3. It's actually a legal mandate to sustainably manage the national forests. No executive order needed. They can increase production, but never decrease it legally. So it's kinda like stonks.
  4. About the only place you'll find wild bobwhite in East Texas is deep in timber country where a stand has been clearcut and replanted a few years ago. That kind of management is actually pretty important for a lot of plant and animal communities in the south.
  5. Except the 1907 is blowback operated.
  6. You said rape twice.
  7. The 1907 has so much cleaner lines.
  8. I wish someone would make something like a Winchester 1907 in a pistol caliber. Not so much a fan of these modern carbines.
  9. Just finished it after getting distracted watching other ther stuff. I would definitely recommend.
  10. Of it is only a couple hundred feet across we shouldn't have something big enough to destroy it pretty easily.
  11. Will hiring a CPA make me not poor? Or is it strictly a sequential order of operations?
  12. I guess I'm the only one that didn't care for News of the World?
  13. News of the World over Old Henry?
  14. M&P with a forced reset trigger. Completely useless, but legal. For now.
  15. How? Open Range is probably the best western to come out during those years.
  16. $200 merino wool...so pretty decent material priced like it is closer to premium material.
  17. I'd wear that around the house on a chilly evening or morning. I probably wouldn't pay what they are asking, and I somehow doubt it is made from quality materials, but I love some good western throwback stuff.
  18. Django is kind of WTF. I watched the first and about half of the second episode. It's a bunch of European actors who don't speak English as a primary language trying and failing to sound American, much less Texan. And their whole concept of the West is just completely addled. It's like a bunch of Surly posters decided to make a movie about the war in Ukraine based solely on what has been posted in the thread and without any basic knowledge of the geography. I'll probably keep watching because I am a sucker for westerns.
  19. This show needs its own topic. If you grew up watching Spiderman on Saturday mornings or reading the comic books or trading the cards with your friends in grade school, then you should be watching this show if you aren't already. I know a lot of you have comic book movie fatigue, but this is very much a throwback to those good old days and worth watching.
  20. Glad to see City of God getting some respect in here. Not your traditional gangster movie, but excellent. If you haven't seen it you really should.
  21. Been watching Mo. I never knew about it until a few days ago, but it is great. 2 seasons out. I highly recommend, especially for y'all Houston folks.
  22. SIL's friend's husband works in ticket sales for the Mavs and is already getting flooded with emails of people wanting to cancel their season tickets.
  23. There's more of them in the hills. The hills is where they come from. They have eyes. Shitty ones.
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