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It is ridiculous to include clear cutting as an offset; destroying
our forests is not the way to cut carbon emissions.  Your proposal
does not adequately consider all the effects of clearcutting and
makes your whole program subject to valid criticism and doubts.
California’s forests are also important for the ecological
services
they provide, not only for nature, habitat and wildlife, but for
people too.  Our forests are the lungs of the earth that purify
our
air.  Our forests control sedimentation and temperature of the
waters we drink, and on which our salmon depend for reproduction. 
Even aged, clearcut forests are less resilient, more prone to fire
and disease, and provide less diversity of habitat for the species
on which nature and Californians depend.  Clearcutting should be
outlawed.
Certainly, your regulations should encourage select harvesting of
forests rather than clearcutting.
No offsets for clearcutting.