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> If you removed plantations from the listed forests, people would be shocked. The vast majority of Canadian forests are not plantations and are, in fact, actu
by Ensorceled 3y ago
> If you removed plantations from the listed forests, people would be shocked.
The vast majority of Canadian forests are not plantations and are, in fact, actual natural forest.
In fact, we learned our lessons about "mono-culture tree plantations" in the 80s and a lot of replanting is mixed except in areas that already had naturally occurring mono-cultures.
- bradley13 3y agoSee my reply to the earlier comment. More than half of Canadian forests are "commercial¨, i.e., tree plantations.
- Ensorceled 3y agoThere is a reply that directly disputes this. "Commercial" means that it is privately owned and can possibly be logged. Not that it has been logged and replanted. Calling large swaths of forest that have never been logged in human history "tree plantations" because they can be legally harvested at some point is, at best, disingenuous.