Up to chap 10 of Virtual Clearcut

It is a gut-wrenching vision you paint on arrival to the clearcut. I had never seen one until my dad showed me into a site on Oyster River near Campbell River. It felt a lot like moving past ghost towns like those former coal-towns in the foothills south of Hinton and Robb. It felt different though, maybe more like a gutted inner city that is in desperate need of a vision. It is not like a forest burned down, although very little in a forest fire burned area leads on to thoughts of unalloyed joy, because total destruction or the appearance of it is never pretty unless you are making a buck on it. 
 
The thing is, the practice is not new, has detractors and supporters, and as the First Nations have been known to observe, trees are the earth's fingernails and they keep growing as such. They also require trimming as such. 
 
Indeed, the First Nations of the Alberta region were said, by James  
ichener, to be responsible for burning the coninent's tree line back to Ft Mc Murray from Red Deer over several centuires, a practice designed to expand the pasture for buffalo, which were shared across the continent and increasing in demand for them due to expanding populations, which stopped expanding for awhile for reasons we need not expand upon here. Thr point is, I am skeptical that abandoning forests entirely to nature may or may not be in the best intersts of so-called Mother Nature. It is the management style that needs to be addressed

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