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Which is also a good plan! However, most people don't understand the complex care that forest's require. Most forests in North America evolved millions of year
by exabrial 3y ago
Which is also a good plan! However, most people don't understand the complex care that forest's require.
Most forests in North America evolved millions of years ago to deal with fire to reproduce and keep invasive species culled. Humans interfere with these process in several ways (::grunt::, logging bad, ::grunt::, fire bad, ::grunt scratch::). Studies need to be conducted where we could substitute fire for logging without impacting wildlife. Certain forests would be better candidates for this, but it's also important to make sure slow-growth forests have adequate fire protection to prevent runaway fires.
There's already a lot of momentum with sustainable logging in North America, but it is something that needs to be done in South America and Asia as well.
Logging creates _a lot_ of useful products for people to use, but it requires continuous monitoring and research to keep it green.