The End of Commercial Logging and Pivate Hunting in Massachusetts State Forests Doable.

Organic Buckland State Forest

Fantastic natural landscape of Buckland State Forest, Buckland, Massachusetts (US). This species’ forest is filled with forest storm debris. Most of the rotten logs are pieces of hemlock trees broken off several meters up rather than uprooted. This organic debris prevents human and AUHM (animals under Human management) traffic and thus the local species get all the benefits of forest decay. Buckland State Forest has not been logged in its interior for perhaps a century. We detected no tree stumps. Friends of Buckland State Forest demand that this forest remain a returned species' forest in perpetuity and that logging, hunting and trails not be built or those existing trails on the perimeter and the gravel road to the cell tower not be maintained. Other than removal, invasives, and non-native trees, we tell the state to just let this RSF (returning species' forest) be.

not for people improvements

No stumps

a RSF (returning species' forest)

tree standing free

Massachusetts has Something in Common with China - Political Forestry

Did China just create a model for recovery of the world’s forests?

In the US, after the 19th and 20th centuries, the eastern broadleaf forest grew back from being cleared for cattle and sheep. This was, because of the railroads importing fossil fuel (mostly coal in those days) which replaced firewood. This forest return over all of New England was the first in all the world, yet the farmers of New England don't even know that the Great North Eastern New England Forest is impressive and unique. All politicians, President Obama and Senator Sanders for example, now are giving the go ahead to farmers to once again cut and totally exploit the forests which have taken one hundred and fifty years to re-grow. The proof of the returned forest can be seen anywhere in New England. Stone fences crisscross the land under the now returned forest canopies. There are few pastures, only trees, but this one hundred fifty year progress (via neglect) may be reversed by China-like selfishness. --- Richard H Stafursky

Buckland State Forest is under constant threat from State Forestry planners. Our friends group asks that all logging, hunting and other resource extraction end on Buckland State Forest acres. Actually, ending some destructive practice is easy. No research is required; just end it and the species' forest will return. The centuries of damage by the State of Massachusetts to this species' forest (Buckland State Forest) can be fixed within a few years. Invasive plants will grow less once this habitat "enhancement" is ended and the canopy returns and shades out invasives. This canopy return and the dynamic natural equilibrium which follows will also eliminate the hunter's excuse to manage and kill the mega-fauna for bushmeat.

Both eastern China and Northeastern US have a history of returned forests. The mature forests are our asset, not the biomass, firewood, paper and lumber from these  mature forest. Locals live in the middle of this magnificent forest, but they don't see it. We must praise the result of forest neglect over the centuries. We must not have politicians quietly form their plans for this species' forest destruction.

All are welcome to join Friends of Buckland State Forest, Buckland, MA (US) Please call Richard (Dick) Stafursky (802) 258-7845 Cell

Tree Farms of Evergreen Bad. Foresters are Wrong Again.

Buckland State Forest species' forest must be cured of tree farm past. New England forests must be returned as they were thousands of years ago. It is easy to do this. Europe leads the way for returning native forests. Massachusetts must catch up. State forestry is an embarrassment and all logging on state lands must end. 

Typical broadleaved spcies' forest ideal for Buckland State Forest.

'Wrong type of trees' in Europe increased global warming By Matt McGrath Environment correspondent, from Science  05 Feb 2016:
Vol. 351, Issue 6273, pp. 597-600 DOI: 10.1126/science.aad7270

http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-35496350

Climate Change

Climate Change

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2015/12/04/world/europe/ap-climate-countdown-the-latest.html?_r=0

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2015/12/05/world/europe/ap-climate-countdown-the-latest.html?_r=0

Hunting Season (time of great troubles for the animal species)

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.

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. 

April 2015 Species' Forest Circuit Tour in Cooperation with Friends of Buckland State Forest

SPECIES' FOREST CIRCUIT TOUR

Welcome forest mountain guardians, ethical vegans, ethical vegetarians, ethical conservationists, writers, all progressives and vegan atheists. Free and open to the public!

April 25, 10:00 AM, rendezvous at Deerfield River overlook, visitors center, 75 Bridge Street, Shelburne Falls, MA (US) Free, Public invited.
(802) 258 7845

Towns of Buckland, Conway, Ashfield, Conway Street, Summer Street, South Street, Conway Road, Shelburne Falls Road, Wilder Hill Road, Baptist Corner Road, March Road, Bray Road, Ashfield Street, and the mountains within.

See http://maps.massgis.state.ma.us/map_ol/oliver.php .

Same weekend as: Sunday, 4/26, New England Vegfest, Worcester, MA (US)

Illegal logging in Buckland State Forest

Logging without a logging plan.

There will be a public tour by car and on foot at a selected group of mountains in Massachusetts (US). The circuit will be the shortest public road circumnavigation of the selected mountains. On this day it will be ten miles by car stopping at a variety of locations. We will visit several “conserved” forests and learn that conservation means something different to those in control. From the outside forests may simply look the same, but these forest are not protected over time. In some cases you may return in a decade or so only to find the forest logged or gone. How can that be if they are “conservation” land? What is being conserved? You will learn that only a species’ forest set-aside is returned to nature complete. Only the species’ forest is conserved, restored and preserved for the Rights of Nature. There is always some Human purpose which always harms other forests. This tour is in cooperation with Friends of Buckland State Forest.

A species’ forest is of, by and for all the other native plants, animals, fungi and soil microbes which occupy or have occupied their forest. Why does species have an apostrophe?

Species Forest, Inc. is an IRS 501(c)(3) non-profit organization organized in Massachusetts, US. Please call Richard Stafursky at (802) 258 7845 for information or email rhstafursky@yahoo.com. New Web site is http://speciesforest.blogspot.com/, 

old Web site is http://wslfconwaymausa.blogspot.com/ [World Species List]

DCR probing illegal timber harvest within Buckland State Forest

"Report: DCR probing illegal timber harvest within Buckland State Forest"By Mary Serreze | Special to The Republican  March 22, 2015