Manufacturers needed for sustainable forest managementFriday 6 Sep 2024
The loss of wood manufacturing compromises our ability to protect old growth, watersheds, and biological diversity in addition to hampering strategies to address large, severe wildfires. It complicates maintaining our forests as natural carbon capture and storage systems, while providing renewable, sustainably grown wood to provide materials for our buildings, bridges, packaging, jet fuel and more. Change is difficult, on a personal level, but more so on a societal level. In the late 1980s and 1990s, there was a sea change in forest management. The emerging sciences of landscape ecology, conservation biology, disturbance ecology, along with the social demands for our outdoor recreation lifestyle, plus the desire to protect old growth forests, bull trout, wolves, grizzly bears, lynx, and cut-throat trout across our landscapes, drove the need for change. We recognised the previous model of commodity wood production through forest management on an 80-year cycle and the exclusion of fire was inadequate. Click here for full article Source: The Missoula Current News  | ||
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