TPO-14 - Integrated Writing Task Every year, forest fires and severe stormscause a great deal of damage to forests in the northwestern United States. One way of dealing with the aftermath of these disasters is called salvage logging, which is the practice

The reading states that the government can vanish disadvantages of forest fires and severe Storms cause, which happen every year in the northwestern United States, by salvage logging and provides three reasons of support. On the other hand, the professor claims that beside all salvage logging advantages, it causes long term damages and refutes each author's reasons.

To begin with, despite reading, the professor says that cleaning up vulnerably trees is not necessary for growing fresh trees. She states that damaged trees could rich soil by nutrients. She says that without nutrients soil the growth cycle would be unfinished.

Furthermore, the reading states that dead trees are good places for insect growing and salvage logging could minimize the danger of insect for inhabitants of forest. However, the professor disagrees and says insects are not so bad for environment and birds are one of the species that feed up by insects, so salvage logging would cause lack of insects, as a consequence, lack of some species of birds.

Finally, the professor refutes the economy benefits, which reading claims, by saying that these benefits are temporary and little. She says that salvage logging needs advanced technological expensive machines and beside that, employees of salvage logging must pass special training periods. Also, she states that jobs, caused by salvage logging, don't last so long and employees that are hired and trained, work for a period.