From an environmental standpoint, why is sustainable logging bad for the forest and wildlife?

It isn't. All trees die, they do not live forever, the older they get the more likely they are to die. Thinning forrests reduces the likelihood of forest fires and opens up areas for foraging by deer and other herbivores.


Logged areas are re-planted.


A by-product of logging is access roads that can be used to fight fires.From an environmental standpoint, why is sustainable logging bad for the forest and wildlife?
The answer is that it is not. Sustainable forestry is the only sort of forestry that benefits both forest and wildlife. Organizations like the Forest Stewardship Council are really playing their part in creating an environment, excuse the pun, were sustainable forestry can be assured. Landowners, loggers, sawmills, retailers and consumers can unite to produce and buy products that have been produced under controlled and audited conditions.





Coming from a back-ground in forestry myself, I have seen the good work that can be done. The whole environment is considered. The timber you are allowed to fell, the vehicles you are allowed to use and their state of repair, the people who are allowed to purchase your timber and even the types of fuel you can use in your chainsaw.





Timber can be tracked from the forest to the retailer. Landowners across the globe are participating. Schemes like this have to be encouraged to ensure that the timber we are using is being replenished in a way that means we will leave something to the next generation.





The key has to be planting native trees, reducing timber imports, reducing the reliance on 'fast' growing stock that requires clear felling to provide economically viable management. Selective felling guided by accurate gps location of individual trees will also go a long way to ensuring our rainforests can withstand logging.From an environmental standpoint, why is sustainable logging bad for the forest and wildlife?
It's not sustainability that is bad, it's the way that the forest is logged and replanted. Usually, the problems are massive clearcutting and replanting in a monoculture.
It isn't. We have been doing sustainable logging for at least 10,000 years. They have been doing clear cutting and replanting in the United States for over 100 years.
What is 'sustainable'?

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