Don’t cut down burned giant sequoias. Let the forests heal

To the editor: I oppose the falsely premised Save Our Sequoias Act logging invoice, and I oppose the U.S. Forest Service’s circumvention of environmental legal guidelines and public participation to ensure that the company to conduct a industrial logging venture within the Nelder Grove of large sequoias close to Yosemite. (“We’ve received all of it improper about sequoias and wildfire,” Opinion, July 5)

I’ve surveyed post-fire restoration in large sequoia groves for the reason that late Nineties. My current surveys within the Freeman Creek Grove after the September 2020 high-severity Fortress hearth found a mean of 46 sequoia seedlings about 2 toes tall and fewer than a dozen of different pine and fir species in three plots.

If left alone, sequoias can get well after high-severity fires.

Ara Marderosian, Weldon, Calif.

The author was the founding government director of Sequoia ForestKeeper.

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To the editor: Thanks very a lot for the article and {photograph} revealed with it exhibiting new development in a burned forest.

Final week I documented 1000’s of large sequoia seedlings and saplings whereas mountaineering by elements of Sequoia Nationwide Park, Sequoia Nationwide Monument and Sierra Nationwide Forest that burned intensely throughout current wildfires.

The juxtaposition of good new greens and charcoal-blacks is directly gorgeous and shocking to the attention. I seen them within the snow late final yr; now they’re in full swing.

Let’s give the pure world time, moderately than speeding in for removing and replanting that may seemingly wreck what’s already current: the subsequent technology of giants, readying themselves.

Maya Khosla, Rohnert Park, Calif.

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To the editor: One solely must know that the Forest Service is inside the U.S. Division of Agriculture to understand why they view timber as a crop to be offered to logging firms moderately than a crucial a part of nature.

Maybe the Forest Service must be moved into the Division of the Inside, the place the Nationwide Park Service is. Our forests may be higher cared for then.

A minimum of the science defined on this article must be paid consideration to.

Chris Gilbert, Berkeley