>>>>>>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.
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>>>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
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>>Didn't go to the site yet, Gerry, but that 5 billion is HIGHLY suspect.
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>>After all, I once heard some mathematician discuss a scenario that if 1 person in China jumped off a cliff every second the jumping would never end.
>>I'd sure like to know how anyone can plant 5 BILLION of anything in 1 year.
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>No big deal. Giving each pine seed 100 sqr feet of space that's only 11,500,000 acres, or about 18,000 sqr miles, which could be though of as a square section of land 134 miles on a side or, for 10 southern states, only 13.4 miles on a side each. Compared to the number of corn seeds planted each year 5 Billion is trivial. The big problem is, however, that currently the tree harvesters are cutting down twice as many trees as they are planting, even if they are cutting matured nurseries. That trend is a recent one. (Decade of the 90s).

Well how about this. . . it would take 158 years to plant 5,000,000,000 seedlings at a rate of 1 per second, all day every day for those years.