what are the pros and cons of logging in western canada?
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Pro: There are lots of trees.  You can get lots of wood.\n\nCon: There aren't many people to cut trees or who need wood.  You'll have fewer trees.
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Fir trees. Their more expensive but it's really worth because it lasts longer.
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Maple Elem Spruce\nAll throughout GTA
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Someone in your family should have kept a copy of the contract.  If you have a copy, you can make the logging company live up to its obligations.
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Environmentalists of the past would go into forest that were being cut down, and they would chain themselves into a "hugging" position around a tree. The idea was that the logging companies couldn't cut that tree down, because doing so would be Manslaughter. So if you got enough people to "hug trees" in strategic places, you could save most of a forest from being chopped down. Hence the term "Tree Hugger"
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I live in a province that grows wheat as its main product as well as down south there are cypress trees....contact me if you want some info
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E.  Maple trees\n\n\nLook it up in your text book.
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from Captain Jack of the Modoc Indians ...http://www.accessgenealogy.com/native/indianchiefs/captain_jack.htm  .....\nIn some parts there are a few small trees but no large timber, and to our way of thinking it is a desolate country indeed, but the Modocs liked it, especially the clear lake, Lost River, and bushy parts where quail, partridge, and wild turkey were found, for these Indians did not like to raise corn as white men do. They dug up wild onions, lily bulbs, and camas plants to eat, and found plenty of wild duck in the clear lake and Tule pond
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Here's your answer:\nhttp://canadaonline.about.com/cs/provinces/g/bc.htm
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Pollution and DDT can cause poor environments.  All the oil and logging industries causes detriment to fishing of salmon for eagles.  As civilization expands their habitat shrinks.
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Living in Canada and seeing MANY trees..the moss grows on the north side basically..certainly helps you keep direction while travelling through the deep woods.
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This question has been in debate of decades.  Part of the issue is WHERE the logging is occurring.  In the Rain Forest when clear-cut occurs, the lush undergrowth groud is exposed for farming purposes.  Then in a few years the ground has been over-cultivated and unusable, and then more rain forrest has to be cut down. \n\nThere is no instruction on how to use those lands safely and conservatively.\n\nIn the United States, we have one of the largest programs of conservation and revitalization after tree harvesting.  For every acre cut another acre is planted with seedlings.  In fact the United States has THE largest amount of land set aside for State parks, National Parks and reserved conservation lands in the world.\n\nLogging hurts the environment when no effort is taken to replant or carefully guage where the cutting is done, in what patterns, etc.  You can't just go in and clear cut an entire forest and expect no damage.  \n\nHere is information on the process:\n\nhttp://fwie.fw.vt.edu/rhgiles/trevey/Clearcut_SquareKnot.htm
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Drilling ANWR and offshore areas that have been restricted by ecowhacks is simply a matter of looking at what is truly in the best interests of this country.. \n\nthe proposed drilling area in ANWR consists of a 2000 acre plot of land, no bigger then 4 square miles in an area the size of California. \n\nThe logistics of refining and transport exist as the trans-alaska pipeline from Prudhoe to the Kenai, it's likely the TAP would at this time be adequate to handle any potential increase in volume. \nAs far as drilling in the reserve the impact on the surround water is minimal at well. If one looks at the geology of the area, ground water is generally surficial sources. Drilling of oil occurs at depth, pumped to the surface (IN a pipe) and put IN another pipe. \n\nHow drilling ANWR effect crude prices? Well that is a situation that I don't think we can truly answer. The fact is oil prices are tied to global consumption. The chinese entering the free market has dramatically changed the economics if precious minerals. \n\nHow it does effect the US economy is we are drilling in an area that is politically stable contrary to the middle east. I for one think in order to insure we are not influenced by factors outside the US we should not be dependent on sources of goods from outside the US. A very large portion of our trade deficit is for oil from Mexico, Venezuela and the Arabian penisula.\n\nHighlights of HR 5429:\n• Limits surface development to 2000 acres of the 10-02 Area;\n• Establishes a leasing program for the 10-02 Area; \n• Repeals prohibition of oil and gas leasing on federal and native lands in the10-02 Area;\n• Allows the establishment of 45,000 acres in the 10-02 Area to be designated “Special Areas” of unique or sensitive importance;\n• Sets a 200,000 acre minimum lease size;\n• Requires the first sale to be 22 months after enactment;\n• Establishes a “project labor agreement” for all lessees;\n• Requires site environmental analysis for each lease, and compliance with all Federal and State environmental codes;\n• Requires use of “best commercially available technology” for development;\n• Splits revenue 50-50 between State and Federal Governments;\n• Sets up an “Impact Aid” and “Community Service” program to any Alaskan community that can demonstrate impacts from development.\n\n Only 8% of ANWR Would Be Considered for Exploration Only the 1.5 million acre or 8% on the northern coast of ANWR is being considered for development. The remaining 17.5 million acres or 92% of ANWR will remain permanently closed to any kind of development. If oil is discovered, less than 2000 acres of the over 1.5 million acres of the Coastal Plain would be affected. That¹s less than half of one percent of ANWR that would be affected by production activity.
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Pros: 1.  When it powers turbines to create cheap clean energy\n           2.   When there is wind in the sails so boaters can enjoy a\n                  day out on the water.\n           3.   When you go to fly a kite and there is enough wind  to\n                  make it air born.\nCons. 1.  Strong winds can topple large trees causing damage.\n            2.   Winds can create battering waves and tidal surges \n                  that flood low lying areas.\n            3.   Winds can create white out conditions in snowstorms\n                  leading to accidents.
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Unfortunately, the world needs to come to grips with the fact that Brazil will continue to log rain forest in the Amazon and convert land into low-output farm or range lands.  Tropical rainforest soils are very low in nutrients and threir conversion has serious, probably global, consequences.  There seems to be a pretty good consensus about the problem, but it's not just a simple matter of "big corporations" (they play their part) and a ruined environment.\n\nBesides the big corporations logging, there are a host of small companies that selectively log the most valuable trees.  This has caused the "under count" by many thousands of acres of logged land. (ref. 1)  Often once an area is opened up even in a rudimentary way, subistence "slash and burn" farmers follow, often causing large regional fires. (ref. 2) These are very poor, often uneducated, people who see few alternatives to their life style.  Eventualy, the depleted land often ends up in large ranches.  Those who even try to regulate logging do so at considerable risk as the profits from logging and land conversion are huge.(ref. 3).  Last year saw the worst drought in memory in the Amazon, showing that the environment may have reaced a point of no return. (ref.4)\n\nTo this person, there is no easy solution.  Brazil is a poor country where many of the people live on less than $2 a day.  Nobody has the authority to tell them to stop logging other than the Brazilian government, and even then it is doubtful that such a ban could be enforced given the poverty and lawless conditions in the Amazon.  It's like telling the Columbian's to stop growing coca - the US has spent millions on that effort with little effect.  The solution (if there is one) is to end the demand for tropical hardwood, because it's not just Brazil but every tropical forest that is disappearing fast.  This means providing people with an alternate way to make a living.  The developed world needs to spend the money to give the workers in the Amazon (and other extraction-based poor countries) decent life choices that are sustainable along with a stake in a better world.  I invite you to visit the one.org website which discusses their campaign to do just this. (www.one.org).  Actions speak louder than words.  I have given my favorite organizations site as the last reference, but there are many working for global equity and justice.  Environmental problems in developing countries simply cannot be addressed about without dealing with issues of poverty, disease, and lack of education.
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Canada has vast open spaces. While China is geographically large, its huge population certainly diminishes the number of wild and natural landscapes available.\n\nCanada, with its vast and empty boreal forests, is any naturalist's dream. Any Chinese nationals seeking the wide open wilds could do worse in terms of finding somewhere to migrate to.
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Ganja never did anything bad to me...Way less detrimental than all the Coke, heroin, speed, and hydromorphone that I used to use.  I hope that it does become legal, I can't see any negative repercussions here in BC.  Legalizing it would probably cut down on the Hell's Angels and the Vietnamese gangs grow ops here. N.O.R.M.L.