Those logs are likely on their way to China, and will come back before long as various items of furniture and knick-knacks… Pulp logs are much scruffier! There is definitely a question of how sustainable current cutting will be… trees that size are likely 120 or so years old, but the cutting rate in much of Maine’s industrial forest (how I dislike that phrase!) is more like 40 years… Still, the log train made me think of my Lionel set…
Gorgeous nature photos, and yes the sawed logs really gave me pause…
Thanks, Suzanne… I love my iPhone…
The log train is sobering, very sobering. But isn’t that the stuff books , real books, are made of. R.I.P trees/forest.
Those logs are likely on their way to China, and will come back before long as various items of furniture and knick-knacks… Pulp logs are much scruffier! There is definitely a question of how sustainable current cutting will be… trees that size are likely 120 or so years old, but the cutting rate in much of Maine’s industrial forest (how I dislike that phrase!) is more like 40 years… Still, the log train made me think of my Lionel set…
Even more tragic. We’re exporting logs, and not lumber.