In response to Eric Holle’s views on logging, habitat destruction from slides is complicated. Mud, snow and timber slides have different effects on different types of streams: narrow, wide, fast, and slow. Snow slides meet and wash out quickly and pose little problem. Mud slides dilute and wash out quickly in fast streams, such as the Kelsall, but build up and settle in slow streams.
Timber slides, very common in the lower Panhandle, can last…