Conservation ethic

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Conservation ethic - Definition from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia :

"The conservation ethic is an ethic of resource use, allocation, and protection. Its primary focus is upon maintaining the health of the natural world: its forests, fisheries, habitats, and biological diversity. Secondary focus is on materials conservation and energy conservation, which are seen as important to protect the natural world."


No polemic, just facts : What do you cut with your knife? Fresh wood? Dead wood?

Personnaly I try to cut only dead wood. But in my garden, or when I have to clear my way into a forest I also cut some "green".
 
You crack me up, Chopchoux! :D I cut deadwood, trim in my yard, and skewer the occasional errant scorpion. People on a case-by-case basis only. ;)
 
Green, green, green baby, and it feels good!:D
Thanks to the stinkin' ash borer, japanese beetle, county/state quarantines, and lack of demand, my HOG and HH grades have been getting a work out this year. Ahh, the joys of nursery work:thumbup:

Camping on the other hand would mostly be cutting or splitting dry, and dead. The only exceptions would be bush whacking and making space or room for lines for tying rain flys, etc.
 
I wait patienly for my yard to overgrow so I can madly slash it to bits. Then the waiting begins again.

I try to limit cutting live growth while out hiking and camping.
 
I only cut deadwood in the woods here in Alaska. Otherwise I cut green skewers for Marshmallows for the kids. I have been helping to clear some land for a cabin though but thats a rare case of cutting green.
 
Dead wood, of course. I chop live stuff only when needed - like to clear my yard. In the woods, I don't touch live trees outside my own lands, unless I'm requested to by the owner.
 
dead wood. or invasive species (no shortage of those in West Michigan...autumn olive, Russian olive, multiflora rose). Actually, I'd love to spend a day with some other Busse-handlers tackling some foreign invaders in the area.
 
Whatever I feel like. It all grows back in a year or 2 here in the Great NorthWet.

Seriously, I conserve the best I can. No needless killing here.
 
It depends. On my own land, I'm not above a little tree murder now and again. I only kill trees that need killin' though. I prune limbs that grow over my trails and murder little volunteers that grow where I don't want them. And it's open season on the damned dirty rosebushes. Multiflora roses are the worst. I've been at war with them on our land since childhood. Getting rid of a big stand of that stuff makes for a miserable day's work.

When I'm on someone else's (or public) land, it's dead wood only. If I were in one of those "survival" situations I keep hearing about- that goes out the window. When it came time to build shelter, I'd be a regular Paul Bunyan. Green wood's easier to cut.
 
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