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As someone who lives in the Sierra and has been watching the
forests be decimated by 20-acre clearcuts and their planation
replacements, I strongly oppose the proposed rules which would not
only allow but encourage 40-acre clearcuts and the whole
clearcut-plantation system of elminating mixed forests. Not only
does this create incredible ugliness, but much science shows that
clearcutting releases so much carbon that it will take up to a
century for the new trees to compensate for the carbon released,
let alone sequester more. Additionally, the
deforestation/plantation model reduces biodiversity among both
plants and animals, thus reducing resiliency, which is the key to
surviving environmental and climate change. It makes no sense to
try to address one environmental problem by exacerbating others.