A rambling rant regarding “Sustainable Forestry?”
We need ten times the old growth stands we presently have because big forests are carbon sinks, taking carbon dioxide and producing oxygen and of course we are blowing carbon in the air at a deadly pace. Forests in the Western U.S. are suffering. Insects, fires, air pollution are killing portions of our forests. When houses burn up in an area that hasn’t been made firesafe, its the same as having the trees that were harvested wasted as far as lost resources.