Talk:Logging

message: The photo showing logging in Russia seem to show some kind of river scene near a town or city.  Not only is there a "Lack of a riparian zone" the stumps seem to be missing as well.KAM 16:03, 6 May 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: what is riparian zone --Strong sad5 18:22, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Logging in Russia

message: This could be a fairly extensive bit of information (history, technology, maps, hopefully pictures of locos and steam donks; should it be a subsection here in "Logging" or should it be made its own page?  Skookum1 00:14, 6 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I think it should go here. There is very little information in this article about logging KAM 23:42, 7 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: See also, Wikipedia:WikiProject Trains, as well as, for example, :Category:Washington railroads and :Category:Railway companies of the United States  --GoDot 04:33, 6 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Logging Railroads

message: The current text under the "Logging Methods" section would be better described as "Logging Types".  I propose adding the new heading "Logging Types" and putting all current text under "Logging Methods" under "Logging Types".  I will add Logging Methods, such as conventional skidder logging, cable logging, helicopter logging and more.  QuickDraw 06:03, 27 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes I think you are right. But clearcut vs select cut are more about timber harvest or forestry then logging.  Forestry and logging are closely related but separate things.  Perhaps calling it harvest types?   KAM 14:25, 27 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: That is a good point.  I wonder if a brief description of harvest types should be left in Logging,  with a link and full description located under "Forestry"?  This would be a major change to the article.  Would want some concurrence from others before making such a change.  QuickDraw 16:57, 27 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Perhaps leave it on this page for now with a heading forest management. If the logging article grows later it could be a seperate article. Also I think that instead of clearcutting it should be called block selection when used in a managed forest to harvest timber. The term clearcutting by itself also sometimes refers to removal of the forest prior to conversion to another use or when harvesting takes place with no plans for regeneration . KAM 18:45, 29 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Propose Adding "Logging Types" 

message: "This type of clearcut area takes a longer time to regenerate forest and suffers more erosion than does mixed-stand clearcutting that leaves younger trees intact."  - Erosion from logging is caused by roads and the machine use, not the removal of the stems. How can a clearcut cause more erosion?  KAM 19:25, 29 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: i really dont think logging can have that signifigant of an affect on salmon population from what ive heard its over fishing that has the most drastic of an effect  —Preceding unsigned comment added by I heart ska (talk • contribs) 07:04, 20 August 2008 (UTC)

text: When the canopy is removed the local water table rises leading to increased levels of soil saturation, due to the loss of interception of precipitation and severly reduced evapotranspiration through the absent trees. If the land is not rapidly colonised by plants increased runoff will occur and , particularly in steep terrain, erosion will occur.The Boy that time forgot 20:03, 18 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Logging and erosion

message: This layout by method seem more logical to me. Conventional skidder logging, cable logging, helicopter logging can all be worked in here.KAM 13:31, 14 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Format

message: I was thinking that there is much more we can say about logging roads, but it probably should be on its own page rather than a page about logging. -Finn — Preceding unsigned comment added by Finn krogstad (talk • contribs) 20:44, 8 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Maybe, I was wondering about a section on Best Management Practices which is mostly concerned with roads. That could easily be a separate article. KAM 22:17, 8 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Logging roads on its own page? 

message: Is this worthy of an article by itself? KAM 14:22, 3 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I think we should just put it in this section.  That is probably why people are looking for logging anyway.  I could add a bit about the California Forest Practices Act, but maybe that would be to provincial? SierraSkier 18:10, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

text: Ughh, I will work on sustainable forestry certification stuff. SierraSkier 18:13, 4 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Logging and the environment

message: Selective logging causes widespread destruction, study finds — Preceding unsigned comment added by KAM (talk • contribs) 23:25, 9 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Use of the term logging in Forestry 

message: The last sentence in this article reads: "However, the effect of logging can be necessary to promote the growth of younger trees which must take the place of the older and dying ones."
To me this seems like a non-neutral point of view advocating logging. Anyone who has studied biology knows that nature have means for renewing itself and logging is seldomly necessary to promote younger trees. Dead trees decompose and provide nutrients for new trees and plants. On the basis of this, I removed that sentence. I also removed the accompanying picture which does not add anything to the article, and provides a misleading and rosy picture (look like someones backyard, not like any of sites of logging that I have seen). Please feel free to discuss here if you disagree with these changes. Thanks  —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 82.152.206.159 (talk) 19:21, August 20, 2007 (UTC) 
:I certainly disagree.   It depends on WHAT you want to grow back.  Different tree species grow back optimaly under different conditions.   Douglas fir, a common species in Western Oregon, Washington and southern British Columbia doesn't regenerate properly under the conditions you advocate.   Natively it is a 'fire cycle' tree that regenerates well on scorched earth which is easily emulated by mechanically removing the forest organic cover and exposing mineral soil for planting  (or seed sprouting)   IF a layer of duff and other organics are left to cover the soil it will rarely get started.    On the other hand tree speciies such as Western Red Cedar and hemlock start quite well in duff and on nurse logs.   the hemlock is somewhat more prolfic in growing and less tasty to the deer and elk so for the most part, nature is not taking its course---you are making an active management decison----do you want Douglas fir or Hemlock to grow here???? when you decide either to clear to mineral soil  or not.
:Likewise Douglas fir won't start in the shade as it is extremely shade intolerant, so if you are going to start a Douglas fir--- you will a) get rid of the shade and b) get rid of the duff and other stuff on the forest floor down to mineral soil.
:This is why Hemlock and cedar are known as late successional species.   they will grow up through the douglas fir and ultimately kill the douglas fir out.   However the cycle is closed because in the process so much dead woody  material is created that the fire load gets up to a level that makes the forest highly flammable, and in due course  (typically a 100 years in dry climates and a couple hundred years in wet climates) all the suff burns up.   This disturbance clears the ground to mineral soil, and the cycle can restart.
:the forest is dynamic.  It cannot be frozen in time.   A mature forest is one waiting to burn.  Logging is a management alternative for restarting the cycle without having a giant cataclysmic fire event.Rvannatta 06:36, 21 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Natural renewal vs. assisting logging 

message: There was a list of farm equipment and I was disappointed that there was not such a list for logging.  That hay baler animation was cool also.  Politics aside, logging is very quite possibly a dying art -- it would be nice to get a list of the equipment before everyone who is left on the planet (if anyone is) has to guess about it.  thanks -- carol 16:46, 16 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: well there are pages for some machines, and even though logging is a long time and honorable occupation, people who can't figure out that wood is a renewal resource have made most of the logging pages political footballs for a politcal agenda.  If you want to see a variety of equipment used,   I've actually collected many photos on my private website at "www.vannattabros.com/iron.html"Rvannatta (talk) 04:26, 17 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I did not mean to get political :) (the talk page seems to be alittle this way though).   Technology is as dynamic as everything else.  It moves forward and steps back.  A page about the current technology now might be a museum piece sooner than you know it as new ways are found and implemented.  I just needed a quick wikilink for something that also moves seeds around.  Thanks for the response, an encyclopedic monument to logging technology might be the perfect next project.  Such a page, without a political bias could just be there for the people who want to save the forests and also for the people who would like to renew them.  Or, if you rather, for the people who would like to stop logging and for the people who would like to stop stopping. I really meant that thanks! (that is a beautiful site btw) -- carol 09:27, 17 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Logging is a technology for making use of a renewable resource and you would think that this is hardly a political topic, but it has been politicized.     While eco terrorists don't seem to blow up coal mines or gas wells, they have no hestitation in attacking loggers even though the loggers are managing a renewable resource.   Then they even have the gall to put pages in wiki glorifiying the deeds such as the page on 'tree spiking' with a few disclaimers to get it past the editors.  It gets my blood pressure up a bitRvannatta (talk) 21:04, 28 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I think that if anyone has anything bad to say about loggers, they sould think of how it would be with out all the things we get from wood, like lumber for houses, paper for school, busineses, and personal use. The people that complain about loggers need to realize how hard it would be if we didnt have the loggers! My family had a large logging operation for many years. We respect the loggers.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.79.10.6 (talk) 16:47, 6 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: List of logging equipment?

message: Consider rewording "Scientists have estimated that forests have once encompassed 40 to 50 percent of the globe".
I think what this is trying to say is, "Scientists have estimated that forest once covered 40 to 50 percents of the land on earth."
In using the terms "encompassed" and "globe", you're basically saying that the actual planet, including everything between the core and the surface, was made of 50% forest. Even when just talking about the surface of the earth, don't forget that most of it is covered by water. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.224.208.60 (talk) 19:56, 6 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reword? 

message: Introductory paragraph has numerous problems including a non-neutral POV, and several dubious claims, such as "logging must be restricted or the (sic) planets forests will not be restored". It can be reasonably argued that logging is but one part of the rather complicated processes of land conversion and development that include road-building, logging, land-clearing, immigration & settlement, draining wetlands, agricultural conversion, and other development activities. Also, there are numerous examples of sustainable forestry that preserve forest health and productivity while including prescribed logging (harvesting) activities. Pradtke (talk) 12:22, 8 October 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Let's be frank, the whole article is bad, bad bad. It reads like a term paper written by a committee of an overzealous 15 yos. Massive overuse of subjective, emotive weasel words and buzzwords. Almost no references, and those that there are are taken for just a couple of studies. Swathes of values judgements about what people must do. Whole article needs to be re-written from top to bottom. By the time we delete the unsourced articles and the buzzwords/weasel words there wouldn't be much left of the intro or the environment section.Ethel Aardvark (talk) 06:45, 9 October 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: But adding the endless links to who? what? which? etc certainly isn't helping anything, nor all the section tags. It makes the whole thing look like a dog's breakfast. One link at the end of a sentence/paragraph is enough, or perhaps consider fixing things up if you think there's a problem, rather than making it look so shabby. That mess calls into question the NPOV of the editors doing so. --jjron (talk) 15:33, 10 October 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: While the lead is seriously disconnected from the body of the article, it's really worth asking what the focus of this article should really be.  If someone wants to read about "logging" are they more interested in the techniques and technology of felling trees and extracting logs, or are they more interested in deforestation and the environmental impacts of production forestry?  Guettarda (talk) 15:49, 10 October 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: A point I think that can be made clear is that deforestation and (production) forestry are not the same thing. Since there are already pages on forestry and deforestation (not entirely without their own problems), it makes more sense to me to mention the linkages between logging and either deforestation or forestry with a little context here, plus links to the other pages.  Pradtke (talk) 03:28, 13 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Disputed 

message: I removed a sentence "Ecologically minded timber companies plant two trees for every one tree they harvest." This is false for several reasons. For one, the number of trees planted in a plantation has little to do with the number of mature trees cut at harvest time. It has more to do with the optimum spacing for growth and survival, intended use of the trees (sawtimber, pulpwood, or bioenergy) and management plan details such as whether thinning will be prescribed at mid-rotation.  Second, some species of trees regenerate naturally and don't require any planting after cutting. Third, there's no simple way to determine what "ecologically minded" means, especially as it relates to how many trees someone plants. pradtke (talk) 01:31, 10 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  false statement 

message: Revised the definitions of logging and clearcutting to match professional standard definitions.  Prior to these edits, both definitions were based more on POV than objective standards.  Both of my proposed revisions are based on definitions the Society of American Foresters' 1998 Dictionary of Forestry, as referenced in the text.Eli Sagor (talk) 12:20, 25 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Definitions 

message: Sustainability needs to be addressed in this article, and these look like a decent sources:
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thread_title:  "Peak timber" and source 

message: SEPARATE ITEM: there is a "link" in the article to high-wheel loaders, but it doesn't go anywhere -- there is no article on that. However, a little digging finds a Wikipedia article for Michigan logging wheels, which appears to this novice to be the same thing. Could someone check, and perhaps make the link work if that is true?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.244.151.64 (talk) 00:13, 18 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: High-wheel loaders

message: List of logging companies to help integrate other articles and provide flow to company articles  — Preceding unsigned comment added by CREEApogee (talk • contribs) 01:42, 12 July 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  List of logging companies 

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message: A discussion is taking place to address the redirect Woodcutting. The discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2020 May 15#Woodcutting until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion.  Paul_012 (talk) 01:45, 15 May 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Woodcutting" listed at [[Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion|Redirects for discussion]] 

message: I noticed that this page does not have a link to the very much related page for Felling. I'd add it myself, but could not find an elegant place to link it. Can anyone think of a nice place, that's not the already crowded 'see also' section? If the term 'logging' does include felling (which I think it does, but I'm not an expert), I think mentioning and linking it somewhere in the first two paragraphs wouldn't be a bad idea, but I'd love to hear other opinions. Aspharon (talk) 21:16, 15 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Link to 'Felling' page?