Comments on: Boy Scouts – Conservation or Profit? http://www.adirondackbasecamp.com/2009/01/scouts-conservation/ Travel, Tourism, Outdoors, News and Information for the Adirondack Region of New York Fri, 03 Feb 2012 20:10:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: CW http://www.adirondackbasecamp.com/2009/01/scouts-conservation/comment-page-1/#comment-14447 CW Mon, 08 Jun 2009 17:15:42 +0000 http://www.adirondackbasecamp.com/?p=1535#comment-14447 I think we need look at our own perspectives and call ourselves "conservationists", "naturalists", or "environmentalists". Perhaps some combination is appropriate. Regardless of what your positions is, you need to be actively engaged! We can't hope to have any effect on what happens if we don't engage in the discussion. "If you're not part of the solution....you're part of the problem." I think we need look at our own perspectives and call ourselves “conservationists”, “naturalists”, or “environmentalists”. Perhaps some combination is appropriate. Regardless of what your positions is, you need to be actively engaged! We can’t hope to have any effect on what happens if we don’t engage in the discussion. “If you’re not part of the solution….you’re part of the problem.”

]]> By: TourPro http://www.adirondackbasecamp.com/2009/01/scouts-conservation/comment-page-1/#comment-13830 TourPro Mon, 02 Feb 2009 21:27:49 +0000 http://www.adirondackbasecamp.com/?p=1535#comment-13830 Definitely an interesting issue. "Forestry Management" is really a subjective concept. Definitely an interesting issue. “Forestry Management” is really a subjective concept.

]]> By: Mrs. Mecomber http://www.adirondackbasecamp.com/2009/01/scouts-conservation/comment-page-1/#comment-13829 Mrs. Mecomber Mon, 02 Feb 2009 21:21:48 +0000 http://www.adirondackbasecamp.com/?p=1535#comment-13829 I'm all for conservation, but I realize that human intervention is a necessity especially in forested areas. Take the yearly California wildfires, for example. Many of those fires begin in dry tinderboxes of woodlands, which, had they been cleared of the old decaying timbers, would have been less apt to light up, or at least the fires would have raged less destructively. Those stumps in that photo look awful, but an entire ecosystem thrives in those, bringing about a "natural" decay simultaneously. It seems that the push for "natural conservation" goes a little too far at times. And you can bank on bureaucrats never looking at the larger picture, only what they see and feel at the present moment (and what is lucrative for the present moment). I’m all for conservation, but I realize that human intervention is a necessity especially in forested areas. Take the yearly California wildfires, for example. Many of those fires begin in dry tinderboxes of woodlands, which, had they been cleared of the old decaying timbers, would have been less apt to light up, or at least the fires would have raged less destructively.

Those stumps in that photo look awful, but an entire ecosystem thrives in those, bringing about a “natural” decay simultaneously.

It seems that the push for “natural conservation” goes a little too far at times. And you can bank on bureaucrats never looking at the larger picture, only what they see and feel at the present moment (and what is lucrative for the present moment).

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