Is excessive Logging , hurting the bear pop in your area
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It's a classic. A man of your age should recognize a Frank Drebin line when he sees one. Wash a tablespoon of cement down with that Bud Light...
R.
- Location
- Southern Vancouver Island
Agreed on both points. I hunted the cut blocks most of time in my area as well, & on north Van Isle. The folks with a feller buncher took down a 60' wide X 400 yd long swath of alder behind my place couple yrs back and the deer and bear are liking it just fine along with a few elk.
This be a rather common sight behind my place these days. Bugger was enjoying me lawn cuttings.
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I've done an awful lot of bear hunting as it's always a fun hunt to get out in the spring and it's something that can easily be done after work. Most of them have been in or around cut blocks. I've found lots of their beds and they are often near a cut block. How much does logging effect bears? Probably depends more on the type of logging and the location. Around here the logging provides lots of food for wildlife and there is usually timber right next to the cut blocks that provides cover and bedding areas.
Interesting how you start a thread with a question and you are not ready to hear people’s opinions or knowledge on the matter!
It seams to be a trend on the thread you start, maybe?!?!
Entertaining for sure, but get old quick!!
Cheers
pete dobinson
CGN frequent flyer
- Location
- Courtenay BC.
Hi Pete
It's sad . I have flown over Van island many times to go fishing on the west coast . The destruction is hard to look at . Bear's die in this[/QUOTE] There's lots of bears on Vancouver Island, that wasn't the point I was making.
It's sad . I have flown over Van island many times to go fishing on the west coast . The destruction is hard to look at . Bear's die in this[/QUOTE] There's lots of bears on Vancouver Island, that wasn't the point I was making.
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For the record, you are 100% incorrect here.
Cut blocks are planted typically in the first spring the year following harvest so that the slash has had a bit of time to
settle and the slash piles have been burned for hazard abatement. Economically it makes the most sense to plant when the competitive brush species are the smallest and the piles are gone. If you have to have planters go back after the initial planting to fill plant the burn piles it costs more. Not to mention you have to replace the seedlings that got killed by burning.
Glyphosate is only applied in the late summer after conifer buds have closed but deciduous species are still sucking up sunshine. And that is only done on blocks that need it so they can offset the brush competition for a couple of seasons and give the plantation a chance to make it to free growing status. Spraying isn’t cheap, and its really labor intensive. And it isn’t just done willy nilly across the landscape.
Incidentally, when a droplet of glyphosate touches a dirt particle it becomes inert. A block that is sprayed only has the brush species knocked back for a season or two, and then it comes back.
You seem to have difficulty grasping facts as presented to you from folks who work/have worked in the industry?
R.
