>>>I suggest you spend some time studying current forrest management practices.
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>>Will do, but I cannot fathom being able to cut down a tree and saving all the wildlife (plant and animal) that was housed by that tree.
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>>Not that I'm hippie tree hugger trying to save every bug and squirrel in the woods, but the issue does exist.
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>And it is an important issue. It's not just what lives in the trees (and even the rotting one on the ground) but also the atmosphere changeover, soil enrichment, shade for plants/animals, water cleaning, erosion protection, and on and on.
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>There is also success being had with cutting selectively, offering some promise for a bit of win-win in many of the issues.


Here is a gov site that discusses it.
http://www.na.fs.fed.us/spfo/rngr/pubs/np96/role.htm
It seems that most wood products comes from the south. It also seems that with georgia pacific planting almost 5 BILLION seedlings each year (a figure obtained from another site) there will be plenty of paper and forest habitat to go around.
JLK