10/16/2026
Saving every tree doesn’t mean saving the forest. Those perfectly straight rows of pine trees you see throughout Ontario did not grow that way naturally. They are man made plantations that were established with long term forest management in mind.
Somehow along the way, cutting trees meant “destroying forests,” and leaving every tree standing ‘means “protecting them.”
Trees do not survive on good intentions!
As plantations become overcrowded, trees compete for sunlight, water, nutrients, and growing space. The strong trees dominate, while the weaker trees struggle, and eventually die.
This isn’t an opinion, this is how competition between trees works.
Refusing to thin an overcrowded plantation does not eliminate that competition. It leaves the trees to fight for resources until they start to die off.
Thinning removes selected trees, reducing competition and allowing the remaining trees to grow stronger and healthier.
The trees that are removed become lumber, paper, building materials, livestock bedding and various other materials that we ALL rely on.
If the goal is to protect the forest, why oppose the management that keeps it healthy?
Responsible logging is conservation
Better loggers leave better forests
