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Wonderful tree.

That's disconcerting to read, Jer. Have you talked with your doc about it? Might be a simple modification of dosage would both provide the desired treatment and avoid the bad side effect.

As you say, my friend. Actually, my taste in whiskey and whisky runs quite the gamut. Certainly it does not run to the high end stuff except on special occasions :). I can be quite content with a decent blended scotch, most of the time.

A very nice porch, and a nice deck too :). Whiskey, conversation, and a supercharged Jaguar already warmed up and calling from the driveway...what could go wrong? :D Yep, I don't think there is much daylight between our positions at all.

Most of it is very blue collar. Victoria is a cultural outlier.

Great Far Side, Jim...I remember that one fondly.

Well said, sir.

Eric...no one prescription for managing any one stand in any one forest at any one point in the span of that stand's life will be all right or all wrong. I think you are looking through a very narrow lens, one that does not show a depth of understanding of forest ecology in the long term, and...

I didn't even mention what it is like to walk a unit I planted as a wee young tot of a refor tech 36 years ago. Did that just last month. Planted to 8x8 average spacing, thinned 12 years later to 13x13 average. It was commercially thinned 8 years ago... took out about 30% of the volume, on...

I have. More times than most people have. And I will respectfully disagree with your conclusion, again. It is not black and white, Erico. I never found any joy in walking those raw cut units...but walking out of one 6 months later after sheparding a planting crew for days and busting my ass...

Kevin, if that clearcut was on National Forest land, use of herbicides was banned over 30 years ago, so any decent reforestation program would have had a crew of sawyers go through and perform a "competition reduction" stand improvement prescription. That would mean, cut out the hardwoods and...

So are there just no regulations governing timber harvest practices or requiring reforestation in BC, Reg?

Sorry I didn't get back to replying to this sooner, Reg. I did not and do not advocate for harvesting oldgrowth forests. By any harvest prescription. My point was that to consider any and all clearcut harvests a removal for all time of a fully functioning stand is simply incorrect. I do not...

I knew it was too long...sorry guys.

First and foremost, Mario, those are beautiful photos. Thanks. OK, second (and I doubt I'll even try to keep up numerations after this :)) Stig my good friend. You are right, argument is not discussion, and I value our discussions here. I was feeling a bit sad that some points I have tried...

Well, I don't really want to argue with my friends here about the subject. We all make valid points and though we might disagree on who is well informed and who is not, we are entitled to our opinions. But one final word I would like to have, and I ask that those who find my position at odds...

Now that sentiment right there, I don't get, Erico. When I look at a beautifully growing reforested clearcut that I was given responsibility for after it was harvested, took sample plots on slash-ridden and often steep as shit western Cascade Mountain slopes to establish plantability and need...

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Nice trees, all.

That's a good looking gal you landed there, Eric. Nice tree, too :).