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windthrown · 26th January 2008, 05:04 PM

Around here it is pretty simple and straight forward. Tree huggers climb trees and/or chain themselves to trees so that they cannot be felled. The archtype tree hugger is Julia Hill, AKA "Butterfly", that camped out in a redwood tree in Humbolt for months and made the news:

CNN - Tree-hugger lives atop Redwood to save forest - June 22, 1998

Now there is also TreeHugger, a more or less environmental web site that is commercial, and as such somewhat contradictory in my view. Like treehuggers that drive Volvos to rallies... buring gas.

My view is quite different. Old growth trees are not always in the best shape or health, and if you want more biomass per acre, you have to clear cut and replant. At least with Doug firs you do. Tree hugging by cutting.

26th January 2008, 05:04 PM	#2 (permalink)
windthrown Semi-mature vigorous tree Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Pacific Northwest USA Posts: 127	Re: Your definition of a tree hugger Around here it is pretty simple and straight forward. Tree huggers climb trees and/or chain themselves to trees so that they cannot be felled. The archtype tree hugger is Julia Hill, AKA "Butterfly", that camped out in a redwood tree in Humbolt for months and made the news: CNN - Tree-hugger lives atop Redwood to save forest - June 22, 1998 Now there is also TreeHugger, a more or less environmental web site that is commercial, and as such somewhat contradictory in my view. Like treehuggers that drive Volvos to rallies... buring gas. My view is quite different. Old growth trees are not always in the best shape or health, and if you want more biomass per acre, you have to clear cut and replant. At least with Doug firs you do. Tree hugging by cutting. __________________ So few saws, so many trees... Stihls: 210/250-/025/290/361/FS85 Echo: CS-3000, Olympyk & Mac doorstops