Can we make our forests last? (sustainable forestry)(Closing In On Sustainable Forestry)

From: American Forests | Date: May 1, 1995| Author: Nixon, Will | Copyright information

Sustainable forestry aims to maintain the forest ecosystem's completeness and diversity. The eastern forests now thrive with trees and wildlife that were once part of early American life. However, present-day forests have yet to gain full biodiversity, which could take hundreds of years.

Forest management is a learning process, like everything else in life. We learn as we go, and are bound to make mistakes along the lessons learned so tar in our quest to make forestlands truly sust...

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