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littlemissmartypants

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15. We've done a piss poor job of forest management for many, many reasons for hundreds of years.
Fri Jul 17, 2026, 08:47 AM
13 hrs ago

We could learn a lot from indigenous practices.

And if we don't stop selling wood for fuel and to make easily destroyed light poles that are sold all over the world, soon we won't have any forests to manage.

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Not news to anyone with a maturity of 10-year-old or more. Girard442 15 hrs ago #1
An idea that requires critical thinking skills Dr. T 15 hrs ago #2
What? You mean you didn't rake your forests? Biophilic 14 hrs ago #3
This idea that poor forest management caused this Johnny2X2X 14 hrs ago #4
Fire is absolutely critical in the health of the large Boreal forests in the Eastern and Western hemisphere's Cheezoholic 14 hrs ago #5
Please break this up into paragraphs. Thank you. ❤️ littlemissmartypants 13 hrs ago #14
The white area of Saskatchewan, Alberta and Manitoba USED to be forest also FakeNoose 14 hrs ago #6
Excellent point. nt moniss 14 hrs ago #10
Let's also not forget that the US can't send the help it used to send. GoCubsGo 14 hrs ago #7
no explanation markie 14 hrs ago #8
Have they raked their leaves? Guess not. twodogsbarking 14 hrs ago #9
When the fires are in Canada they are poor forest managers Hope22 14 hrs ago #11
He's going to be in New Jersey for the World Cup final match on Sunday FakeNoose 13 hrs ago #16
I was gonna say that sounds promising but you are on the mark! Hope22 13 hrs ago #19
Lemme guess, Glaisne 13 hrs ago #12
Sigh lonely bird 13 hrs ago #13
Please catch me up. It is early yet, and I seem to have missed some niyad 13 hrs ago #17
Certainly lonely bird 4 hrs ago #22
We've done a piss poor job of forest management for many, many reasons for hundreds of years. littlemissmartypants 13 hrs ago #15
Granted but the boreal forest is a whole different matter paleotn 7 hrs ago #21
Dear Goddess, what stupidity have I missed this time? niyad 13 hrs ago #18
Most Americans don't get it paleotn 8 hrs ago #20
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