Sunday, March 8, 2015

Triage


Triage

Very, very sad for the forest

Buckland State Forest, Buckland, MA (US) has been triaged as a WOODLAND (aka tree plantation). We sent a complaint to the Massachusetts government administration during the triage, but they did not listen. Triage will be hard to undo, but undo we must.

Forests under state and federal management face the same dangers. Caution! The link here is of most forest organizations in the US and some other nations, but ask yourself the question, "Does this organization listed protect the species' forest or does it protect the rights of people to exploit the forest?" It can't do both. The slightest use of a forest harms the forest forever. There is no win win. The forest always loses if used in any way by people (e.g. trails, logging, hunting) and the forest gradually slips out of the natural dynamic equilibrium which it needs to survive as a species' forest. See federal list http://www.discovertheforest.org/partners/  , US Forest Service (www.fs.fed.us) Forest Partners.

Under the US Obama administration they are getting better at promotion, but the US Forest Service is still run buy the forest resource stakeholders. A stakeholder is an organization or person who has a property or money interest in some action. Ethical conservationists are not stakeholders. As individuals, ethical conservationists have no personal profit as their goal. State and federal foresters and employed ecologists are stakeholders.

Beware of stakeholder words and expressions. Does that word come from a forest industry or was that term co-oped by industry. Beware sloppy words that originally were used by the GREENS, but have been adopted by industry. For example, the word biodiversity has been adopted by nearly all forestry companies who say they are interested in biodiversity when in fact they log native forests and this prevents the return of the species' forest. Also, WOODLANDS is just another name for a tree plantation. "Best practices" is just another name for forest management, yet a species' forest does not need to be managed.

When you see a list of forest organizations find out what is their history.  Don't trust their printed mission statement. See http://speciesforest.blogspot.com/ .

A species' forest is of, by and for all the other plants, animals, fungi and soil microbes that occupy their forest. A species' forest is not managed by or for people.

Join our friends group this spring and summer  2015. All welcome. Our sole purpose is to protect.

Best wishes,

Richard (Dick) Stafursky
802 258 7845 ( c e l l )
Friends of Buckland State Forest, Ashfield, MA (US)