Every year, forest fires and severe storms cause 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 of removing dead trees from affected areas and using the wood for lumber, plywood, and other wood products. There are several reasons why salvage logging is beneficial both to a damaged forest and to the economy.
First, after a devastating fire, forests are choked with dead trees. If the trees are not removed, they will take years to decompose; in the meantime, no new trees can grow in the cramped spaces. Salvage logging, however, removes the remains of dead trees and makes room for fresh growth immediately, which is likely to help forest areas recover from the disaster.
Also, dead trees do more than just take up space. Decaying wood is a highly suitable habitat for insects such as the spruce bark beetle, which in large numbers can damage live, healthy spruce trees. So by removing rotting wood, salvage logging helps minimize the dangers of insect infestation, thus contributing to the health of the forest.
Third and last, salvage logging has economic benefits. Many industries depend upon the forests for their production, and because of this a fire can have a very harmful effect on the economy. Often, however, the trees that have been damaged by natural disasters still can provide much wood that is usable by industries. Furthermore, salvage logging requires more workers than traditional logging operations do, and so it helps create additional jobs for local residents.
Both the lecture and reading are about the salvage logging which the article enumerats three different benefits for that. It says that removing the wood from a fired forest after a devastating fire help the forest to grow faster with new trees, control the insect population after fire and create more job for local people. Hwoever, the professor argues this idea by explaining that it has longer term damage for the fired forest and refutes all the writer's reasons.
Firstly, the article states that after fire forest will choked with the dead woods that need a long time to decompose, taking them out provide more space for new trees to grow faster. In contrast the professor contends this point by saying that cleaning the forest after fire doesn't nessecarily make good growing environment for new trees. She asserts if they leave there they will decompose and will add more nutrients to the forest soil. It porvides a better soil for next generations of trees. Those trees willl have better root system in this enriched soil.
Secondly, The reading posits that fired trees not only occupy the space but also they will provide a good habitat for insects. It mentions spruting bark beetle as an devasstating insects that can dwell in thsoe fired forest and make more damages. Conversely,the professor avers that although fired trees can be a house for insects but they are not harmful for the live and
new trees. She mentions an example about the beetle insects that live in the California jungle after fire. She adds that insect population will be controlled by other insects or birds.
Finally, the article claims that salvage logging will offer more job position for local people and it will help the local economy. On the other hand, the professor repudiates this by explaining that this practice needs sophisticated eqipment such as helicopter and profesional worker to deal with that. Those job position won't fit the local people also they are temporary position, hence it won't help the residents.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, conversely, finally, first, firstly, hence, if, second, secondly, so, well, in contrast, such as, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 5.0 10.4613686534 48% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 5.04856512141 198% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 7.30242825607 151% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 12.0772626932 124% => OK
Pronoun: 36.0 22.412803532 161% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 27.0 30.3222958057 89% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 5.01324503311 140% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1678.0 1373.03311258 122% => OK
No of words: 337.0 270.72406181 124% => OK
Chars per words: 4.97922848665 5.08290768461 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.28457229495 4.04702891845 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.33533608062 2.5805825403 90% => OK
Unique words: 172.0 145.348785872 118% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.510385756677 0.540411800872 94% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 509.4 419.366225166 121% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 3.25607064018 246% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 6.0 8.23620309051 73% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 13.0662251656 122% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 21.2450331126 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 39.6984236935 49.2860985944 81% => OK
Chars per sentence: 104.875 110.228320801 95% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.0625 21.698381199 97% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.875 7.06452816374 111% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 9.0 4.19205298013 215% => Less language errors wanted.
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 4.33554083885 138% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 4.45695364238 202% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.27373068433 23% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.168059890018 0.272083759551 62% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0566984465864 0.0996497079465 57% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0456854390104 0.0662205650399 69% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0942248291875 0.162205337803 58% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0594387381302 0.0443174109184 134% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.6 13.3589403974 94% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 58.62 53.8541721854 109% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 11.0289183223 93% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.6 12.2367328918 95% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.05 8.42419426049 96% => OK
difficult_words: 72.0 63.6247240618 113% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 10.7273730684 126% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.498013245 99% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.2008830022 89% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 75.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.5 Out of 30
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