jungle operation for logging hardwood

Great pictures. Thanks for sharing.
Jim

-- It always looks better when it's finished!

Very interesting.

Harry,

It’s nice to see how logging is done elsewhere. The first pictures look pretty similar to the marijuana camps in our national forests!

L/W

-- Jesus is the ONLY reason for ANY season.

marijuana camps for logging activity? Is this a safe operation?

-- With regards from Harry Montana http://www.hardydeck.com

Thank you! It’s really cool to see the process!

-- Dan Lyke, Petaluma California, http://www.flutterby.net/User:DanLyke

Harry,

I’m sorry to make a joke about something that those outside the USA might not know. In many states in the USA illegal immigrants live in make-shift camps (which from the news photos look much like your pictures) where they grow marijuana illegally using government land and hiding in the dense forest. The only “logging” they do is to remove enough trees to make a plot to grow the illegal plants. Every year the government destroys millions of illegal plants that are grown in our national forests. It is quite an absurb situation.

L/W

-- Jesus is the ONLY reason for ANY season.

this is indeed new information for me, but your national parks don’t have park rangers? If I would grow Marihuana maybe better not in an area checked by state officials? Then we (in Bolivia) are checked upon by satelite, so we can take out a couple of trees but not fields. The same must be true for this marihuana people. Last I saw on television that people from British Columbia 1 out of 10 houses have some plantation in their basement. Thank you for your comment, interesting to know more on our ‘mutual logging camps’..

-- With regards from Harry Montana http://www.hardydeck.com

I doubt there’s that much marijuana growing in U.S. National Parks, as they do tend to be fairly closely monitored, but we have several other park-like designations, National Forest, National Monument, etc, and those can be fairly large and not terribly closely monitored. Mendocino National Forest near me is close to a million acres, but even down in Marin County, just north of San Francisco, there have been farms discovered in amongst the redwoods on state, county and private land (where, presumably, the private landowner was unaware of the operation).

Marijuana is a high value high yield crop, which is why even growing it indoors can be profitable, so it doesn’t take much land to make a profit.

-- Dan Lyke, Petaluma California, http://www.flutterby.net/User:DanLyke