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Here is a couple more paragraphs of Forestry.

that were economically unfeasible to salvage.

  Many other experiments were tried, marking to cut, marking to leave, strip logging, differing diameter limits were a few.  Somehow no one was able to grasp the idea that if you open up or disturb spruce stands blowdown will follow and delay in salvaging will result in population explosions of spruce bark beetle. Even road construction had disastrous effects as it allowed wind access and the corridors compressed the wind resulting in increased velocity.

  One memorable and ludicrous treatment was attempted for a few years in the 1960’s.  By this time clearcutting was becoming more prevalent as a result of  the earlier disasters.  Clearcutting as most readers know is a cuss word to many who profess to be environmentalists.  In an effort to hide the ugly expanses of clearcut along major transportation corridors, it was decided to leave a buffer zone between the logging and the highways.  Naturally the first windstorm that came along wreaked havoc  and the perception of standing forests was not only destroyed but these zones became the epitome of a logging disaster.

  All the various stand treatments that went through the revolving door of “forest management” were successful in the correct specie or the correct soil or the correct elevation or the correct exposure.  Where a treatment proved to be successful no one took the time to study the results and all the factors that allowed the success.

  One memorable example for me is in the Rocky Mountain Trench about half way between McBride and Valemount. I can only cite this example as my witnessing was a result of coincidence over time.

  The example was a Timber Sale on a steep hillside, probably eighty percent spruce the remainder being balsam, cedar and hemlock.  I cruised this Sale in 1956.  Following the policy of the moment a seventeen inch diameter limit was put on the spruce with other species optional but diameter limits of thirteen inches.[1]

  In 1957 I was transferred to McBride as an Assistant Ranger and this Sale lay within my responsibility area.  The company that had applied for and purchased the harvesting rights decided to log it late in the summer as it was fairly close to their sawmill and being on a steep hillside was well drained. They established the main skid roads in late winter as they shut down their winter operations. This left a proliferation of high stumps along the down hill side of the trails.

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[1] A diameter limit was the minimum size to be harvested on a stump eighteen inches above ground level on the up slope side.