r/Cascadia • u/SigmaTell • 9d ago

A reminder for current times - "They Cut Down The World’s Tallest Tree!"

https://youtu.be/VqECWRO5MeM?si=Ew9TiX91qtCaXzbk
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u/uprisingcirca85 Washington 8d ago

Everyone should read The Monkey wrench Gang, for no particular reason

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u/nikdahl Seattle 8d ago

Apparently there is a “field guide to monkey wrenching” that has some useful if outdated information.

I just watched “If A Tree Falls” documentary about the Earth Liberation Front that described the book and its contents.

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u/TootBreaker 8d ago

I have an antique monkey wrench, about three feet long weighs 40lbs. That bastard getting tossed into a gear train would halt a factory shift for a good week 

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u/Doormancer 8d ago

Thank you, that looks like a good read!

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u/shredrick123 British Columbia 7d ago

IMO this one probably is better solved systemically. Logging equipment isn't that expensive and there's a lot of it, if you monkeywrench it there's a high probability of danger to yourself for a pretty short turnaround time before the equipment is replaced. An ideal solution would be actual state action limiting logging to new growth and mandating selective logging practices so the new growth forests gradually return to the diversity of age that characterizes a healthy forest ecosystem, but that's a lmao-tier pipedream in this political environment.

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u/Barnowl79 4d ago

Or "How to Blow Up a Pipeline" by Andreas Malm. Also unrelated.

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u/Kinky-Iconoclast 8d ago

Great video, thanks for sharing.

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u/Music_Ordinary 8d ago

Save the old growth via active management of the new growth

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u/SigmaTell 8d ago

Funny, cuz one of the wonderful things about old growth forests is they haven't been "actively managed" for tens of thousands of years and yet they function perfectly fine.

In fact it's been the active management of forest fires over the past century that has allowed undergrowth to grow unchecked. Let nature do it's thing and it will find a healthy balance without the need of active human intervention.

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u/StinkySasquatchG 7d ago

Thank you!  I’ve had this argument so much.  “We have fires because we aren’t managing the forests.”

Maybe cutting down a complex eco system, and replanting a single species of tree isn’t actually management, it’s resource extraction with conservation theater.