Stop Logging Before it Destroys the World

Stop Logging Before it Destroys the World

The sound of trees falling in the distance, national forests being cut down by humans; these are things that animals living in the forest have to deal with every day in the forest. Logging takes away animals homes and turns beautiful land into torn up trashy land. Logging is bad for the environment and should be banned from national forest. The logging companies claim they care about our forest but all they really care about is the money. The national forest should not be a source of income for our nation.

Logging the National Forest is very unhealthy for our environment; it pollutes the air, water, and tears up the land. The chain-saws, skidders, logging trucks, burning slash, and all the other logging tools put millions of pollutants into the clean crisp air. The skidders and logging trucks tear up the land making ruts and eroding the land causing water pollution and killing fish.

Discharges of sediments and other pollutants from operations throughout the North Coast region into the region’s rivers and streams have adversely affected the health of fish species endangered or threatened with extinction. Future pollution discharges pursuant to the waiver for logging will adversely affect Coho Salmon and other endangered or threatened species in the future.

(Elkins Cynthia: “Superior court for the state of California in and for the county of Sonoma” page 3)

Cutting the trees also reduces our oxygen supply. The beauty of the land is defaced with logging and should be stopped for environmental concerns.

Now let’s look at the wildlife effects from logging. Endangered species such as the Mexican Spotted Owls need a dense forest for its natural habitat. Logging will de...

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...t the large diameter trees called old growth trees. The reason they only want these is because they get more money from the lumber industry than the pulp wood industry. Pulp wood is the small

diameter trees used to make paper. If all the old growth trees are cut down there will only be small tress which is bad for the environment. Making a profit off of public land is just like stealing money from the public and should be punished by law.

Logging is useless these days for any aspect in which we use tree properties for. In construction we now have steel beams, aluminum siding, and other types of materials which are not wood based. We can now recycle all the paper or make it out of some other type of plant such as corn stocks. With all the damage that is done to the environment from logging there is no reason better to stop logging before it destroys our world.