00:00We've wiped out 90% now of the ancient forest.
00:08It must end. It must end now.
00:10We will not allow any more old growth cutting, period.
00:14We've been logging and we've been living in those resources over 135 years.
00:20I can't understand for the life of me why anybody would be ill-conceived enough to strip down a 300- or 400-year-old tree.
00:26It's more complex than environmentalists versus lumbermen.
00:30It's more complex than the owl versus jobs.
00:33David Eisler has seen the conflict on the Siuslaw firsthand as both a conservationist and as a forester.
00:42The 70s and the Siuslaw was a period of really intensive harvesting of timber.
00:48You had a lot of disparate agendas from the timber industry to people who did not want any forest cut.
00:56On the Siuslaw, many species were on the decline.
01:09Spotted owls, marbled murlets, and coho salmon.
01:14Land managers, loggers, and environmentalists were faced with a decision and an opportunity.
01:19Stop cutting trees altogether and let unnatural plantations mature on their own or work together to improve wildlife habitat.
01:29Everybody has to identify what's the thing they're really wanting to work on.
01:33In that case, it was restoration of coho.
01:35Coho salmon and West Coast forest are deeply intertwined.
01:40Coho adults live out in the open ocean and they return to the streams where they were born to spawn.
01:46After spawning, the fish die and the nitrogen from their bodies acts like fertilizer for the trees.
01:54In fact, one study showed that forests where salmon spawn grow nearly three times faster than where salmon are sparse.
02:03Those trees eventually return the favor when fallen branches release nutrients to the streams
02:09and downed tree trunks provide shelter for juvenile salmon.
02:16They return to the freeze to the sea rays of salves and
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