What is rescue logging?
rescue logging is the practice of wood removal from areas damaged by a natural disaster. There are a number of reasons why rescue logging is performed and practice is controversial in some regions of the world. A number of studies conducted in the 90's and early 2000 indicated that many arguments for rescue logging were not based on scientific investigation and that practice could actually be quite harmful. However, scientists also identified the need for another study to fully explore the impact of rescue protocol from the adoption of final political decisions. One of the key environmental arguments for cleaning the forest area is to help allow re -growth. There are also economic arguments based on wood sales in order to raise funds and aesthetic; Damaged forests are not a pleasant and cleaning of dead trees and brushes can create a cleaner look. Finally, some advocates claim that rescue logging reduces the risk of fires by removingDead ecological material that, according to these arguments, could act as a tinder. Environmental limitation is released for operations to save logging to facilitate fast and efficient removal of damaged plants and trees. The resulting wood is sold in the open market and can be used for various purposes.
Some environmentalists believe that rescue logging is harmful. Studies comparing the forests recorded with forests that are left alone have shown that leaving forests in fact actually facilitated faster recovery from natural disasters. Human activity can destroy seedlings and damage the soil, making the forest more difficult to grow after and disaster and contribute to the loss of topsoil and a decrease in biodiversity. In addition, studies have shown that this practice of logging can actually increase the severity of fires.
In addition, there is no loggingRescue too profitable. Wood is often too damaged to make it very valuable and the cost of extraction can actually exceed the potential selling price. This, in combination with the so -called "Green Salvage", where live trees are removed together with the dead in poorly under the supervision of the operation, can be used as an argument based on costs to leave the forests in the room after the disaster and allow them naturally.