Agreed. We as humans seem to always think we need to manage and make things better. Some forest area should be left alone. We don’t need to meddle in everything. Forests were there before us, and they’ll be there after us. To think that we have to manage the wild is pretty narcissistic and inane IMHO.
Neglect is still a form of management....... just a really poor one.
Uh.....just so much wrong here. Not really sure where to start.
I take it you haven’t hiked the clear cut sections in MMSF. They aren’t just “growing back” and they weren’t properly “re-planted”. The clear cut sections are now a bunch of sticker bush filled ****holes, and they’re choking out any trees that get started there. Lots of ruined old growth.
I use that forest area very frequently, and what they did pisses me off. I’ll never live long enough to see it how it was.
It takes an extremely shortsighted, selfish and frankly ignorant way of thinking to put your aesthetic preferences and convenience ahead of the actual health of the forest. Those mature forests that you mistakenly call old growth are wastelands largely devoid of wildlife and plant diversity.