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Harvesting of trees can be both very profitable and of low impact. There's very high biodiversity on the edges transitioning between forest and clearings. Of co
by tgb 12y ago
Harvesting of trees can be both very profitable and of low impact. There's very high biodiversity on the edges transitioning between forest and clearings. Of course, it's easy to do it poorly, but it's a very useful source of income for many preserved areas.
- hyperbovine 12y agoAlso, everybody still wants and needs wood. It's just an incredibly useful material, as well as being renewable and generally carbon-negative. So, trees are going to be cut down somewhere. Better the national forests where there is at least some stewardship going on than elsewhere.
- wavefunction 12y agoAnd as the perennial summer fires show us year after year, the forests need to be turned over more frequently than they have been to prevent these cataclysmic fires.