{"id":47228,"date":"2021-04-23T23:03:06","date_gmt":"2021-04-24T05:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/letter-national-forest-needs-to-rethink-harvest-plans\/"},"modified":"2021-04-24T05:03:06","modified_gmt":"2021-04-24T05:03:06","slug":"letter-national-forest-needs-to-rethink-harvest-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/letter-national-forest-needs-to-rethink-harvest-plans\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter: National forest needs to rethink harvest plans"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>To improve the health of the forests, the plans include brush-thinning and creating a diversity in size of the ponderosas. They intend to keep the largest, seedlings and pole-sized ponderosas.<\/p>\n<p>The problem is that due to past decades of clear-cutting, most of the ponderosas are a uniform medium-sized. The SJNF generally plans on keeping only those trees over 26.9 inches in diameter; the rest will be harvested.<\/p>\n<p>I just can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t help but think the tree diameter number should be lower. Even a 20-inch tree is a good size in these forests and would eventually develop into old-growth ponderosas.<\/p>\n<p>I would add that anything we take from the forests removesg nutrients from the soil and that controlled burns might be a better option.<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_letters_name\">Anne Bowler<\/em><em class=\"mwc_letters_town\">Cortez<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>improve the health of the forests, the plans include brush-thinning and creating a diversity in size of the ponderosas. They intend to keep the largest, seedlings and pole-sized ponderosas. The problem is that due to past decades of clear-cutting, most of the ponderosas are a uniform medium-sized. The SJNF generally plans on keeping only [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[125],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-47228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-newsletter-opinion"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47228"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=47228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}