Summarized Learning from: 'Seeing the Forest'

The information below is from this video. It has been summarized and put in bullet points, to read the full page on what I learned from this video, click this link to my other blog post.

---Trees that have fallen into a waterway have amny benefits, including protection and habitat for fish, trapping of nutrients, and the slowing of flood waters.

---The Siuslaw National Forest (located in Oregon) gets up to 100 inches of rain per year, making it one of the most productive temperate forests in the world.

---Since these resources drew in so many people that wanted to use them, it was classified as protected and therefore off limits after the Forest Summit in 1993 where Clinton helped create The Northwest Forest Plan.

---Roads began to deteriorate once timber funding was no longer a financial support for their maintenance. And landslides and major erosion occurred during the storm in 1996.

---This prompted the Forest Service to rethink things, so they began on the restoration of these roads by making them more environmentally sound, by expanding culverts, rerouting roads, and even decommissioning and reforming some all together.

---Another step they took was rerouting and cutting a new path for the river in order to create a more healthy ecosystem and increase fish habitat.

---Along these same lines the Forest Service also started thinning sections of the Siuslaw National Forest in order to speed up ecosystem growth and diversity by allowing room for other species to grow.

---The project of thinning created many jobs and most of the profits from the newly created jobs going towards some sort of restoration.

---There was another large storm in 2012 that proved that the new efforts of fixing culverts and removing roads was a resounding success.