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| Trail and right of way used by some hunters to set up blinds. In September it is flooded by storms, but will be soon trodden by hunters. |
Hunting is completely unnecessary in the species' forest. This trail, which is also a right of way, which is now flooded with rain water from a September storm, will soon be used by hunters to get deep in the species' forest and kill native animal mega-fauna. For the time being at least, Buckland State Forest species' forest is mostly canopied which maintains the native animals species numbers in a dynamic equilibrium. Under the canopy, hunting actually destabilizes this natural population balance by random killings and by hunters altering animal behavior.
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| The person who logged this place without consulting the State has appeared in court. Friends of BSF was told by a State ecologist that all logs should be returned to the forest floor for natural decomposition. We agree. |
When large mature native trees are felled by legal or illegal loggers or wood cutters the forest canopy leafs lower to the ground as saplings or, actually on the ground, as brush and weeds. When the uppermost canopy is gone this alters everything. Species' forests are supposed to have complete leafy, bird filled, mammal filled, insect filled and vine filled canopies high high up and out of reach. High canopy leaves limit browsing on the forest floor and thus stabilize deer populations.
One of the lesser problems in Buckland State Forest species' forest is trash.
