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   From: bowman@montana.com   
      
   On Sat, 13 Dec 2025 07:00:19 -0500, Paul wrote:   
      
   > Usually on a clear cut lot, there are lots and lots of "stumps" and   
   > nobody gives a shit about those. That's why the field in that video is   
   > suspiciously "too good to be true". As the years pass, the stumps will   
   > rot and be digested like normal. It's just the stumps are a hazard right   
   > after a clear cut session.   
      
   In this area, make that 'many years'. We had a bad fire in 2003 that took   
   some areas down to mineral soil. Long after the fire stumps were still   
   burning out the underground root systems. 22 years later you still have to   
   be careful off trail not to step in a pit. The areas were not replanted so   
   there are very few trees.   
      
   The winter after the fire I went out snowshoeing and completely lost the   
   trail that I had hiked often. You don't realize how much of a clue the   
   brush along a trail is until there isn't any. There was also a small   
   stretch with fairy slippers, a small orchid, that I liked as a sign of   
   spring. The similar looking shooting stars have returned but not the fairy   
   slippers. The corms have a relationship with soil fungus and that's all   
   gone.   
      
   The clear cuts here definitely don't look like a well prepared garden   
   plot. The technique of leaving a few seed trees wasn't effective either.   
   There's nothing left to shelter seedlings.   
      
   The areas managed by the Forest Service have made out better. I've helped   
   mark out a few timber sales. The trees to go are sprayed blue at breast   
   height and the roots, the keepers orange. The lower paint is to keep   
   people honest since you can tell what was cut from the stump. Often though   
   the sale is never bid on since selective harvesting is more expensive.   
      
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