No, because after a forest fire you don’t get the “optimal full growth spacing” that planters are required to plant. You get plenty of gaps and crowding after a forest fire which creates the opportunities for the churning I described. If you look at a freshly replanted area vs a burnt out area 3 years later they’re incredibly dissimilar even to someone with an untrained eye.
I didn’t say it was perfectly identical. Ofc it isn’t. Floor growth is almost all still there. It is good enough considering cutting is limited to specific locations only, and the alternative is to delete a primary industry.
Alternative planting patterns WOULD better mimic post-fire growth. No need to jump to the conclusion that the two competing ideas are do exactly what we do now or abolish a primary industry.
This isn’t as bad as it sounds. In a way it mimics the natural reset normal forest fires cause.
No, because after a forest fire you don’t get the “optimal full growth spacing” that planters are required to plant. You get plenty of gaps and crowding after a forest fire which creates the opportunities for the churning I described. If you look at a freshly replanted area vs a burnt out area 3 years later they’re incredibly dissimilar even to someone with an untrained eye.
I didn’t say it was perfectly identical. Ofc it isn’t. Floor growth is almost all still there. It is good enough considering cutting is limited to specific locations only, and the alternative is to delete a primary industry.
Alternative planting patterns WOULD better mimic post-fire growth. No need to jump to the conclusion that the two competing ideas are do exactly what we do now or abolish a primary industry.