Biology Impact Oct 29

Speaker1: For California AG today, I'm Mike Stephens. AB 1346 will be affecting the logging industry. We continue with Tim Messer, owner of Messer Logging Inc.. Gas powered chainsaws have been used for years to cut trees. They are well equipped with power and portability.

You won't be able to find trees. You won't be able to harvest trees because that's how we harvest 80 percent of our trees with chainsaws. No other way. Right now, we're working by Deaky Creek and we're five miles from any source power.

Unreasonable expectations are causing delays in clearing burn trees.

They don't. They don't make a lot of sense. We went into an area and wildlife biologists wanted to leave 12 snags to the acre, and she wanted the biggest trees, the Romney acres. And they got the sawmill told her, Forget it. We're not going to harvest if we have to leave that many trees per acre. There's not enough trees on the acre left to harvest bird habitat. Goshawk spotted owl, though not necessarily one there in the area. It's potential habitat, so they want to save it for them in case they want to come there. I'm not going to build a hotel or add on a bedroom to my house in the hopes that you'll come and spend the night there. If you cut down a nest tree, then that bridge is going to build a nest somewhere else. It's not going to go off and die and be sad because he lost his home. Not like the people a several hundred and some people who lost their home in a creek fire.