[MPWG] poaching, etc.

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In a message dated 10/26/2005 11:24:10 AM Eastern Standard Time,  
jmcgraw at wvu.edu writes:

overabundant deer are 
quite likely to be the cause in many  cases.


This is quite true.  However, in my neck of the woods,  overabundant private 
logging of public lands is, though missing from  most conversations about 
conservation, as or more significant than deer,  and in fact exacerbates the 
problem of prolific deer populations.   This season I am noting logging trucks 
passing down the center of my town which  has never happened with such frequency 
in the past.  At my home adjacent to  the state forest 2 or 3 full logging 
trucks per day have been passing my  house.  The east is being harvested more 
aggressively at a time when our  eastern forests are in crisis -- only about 1/3 
of the leaves drew fall colors  this year ( ! ), our forests are still leaved 
and green now at the end of  October when they should be nearly bear, snow feel 
early and the trees are  breaking apart (again) brittle and weak from lack of 
water.  the  ground plants are certainly no better off especially once their 
canopy is  removed.  As a wildcrafter I have noticed that the teaberry 
(Gautheria  procumens), japanese barberry and the white snake root are often the only 
 survivors in these "selective" clearcutting operations.  Then the field  
plants, burdock mullein and couch grass, move in and take over. 
-- Jennifer
_www.herbalistswithoutborders.org_ (http://www.herbalistswithoutborders.org/) 
 

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