Cohousing-L Mailing List: RE: Trees and lumber and sustainable forestry

[Tom Patton (tom]

On Wed, 24 May 1995, Rob Sandelin wrote:

> meat, corn is grown for fuel, etc.  The private lands along the Olympic 
> Peninsula have been harvested  for a fairly long time, and many of the 
> lessons of what to do wrong in forestry, have been learned here.  A 
> clear cut is ugly but so is a harvested corn field.  Each represents a 
> farming activity. Growing corn takes a year, growing trees takes 50 
> years.  Both activities are run by large corporations, all of which 
> depend upon a resource called the soil.  I would also point out that 
> currently, about 70% of the forest products harvested on the Olympic 
> Peninsula in the last 4 years are used for the manufacture of paper.
> 

Good points!  Legalize Hemp for the production of paper!  4 crops/year
instead of 1 every 40 years, 4 times the pulp per acre, can be grown in areas
less sensitive to harvesting, etc, etc, etc.

Won't go into it here, as it really is tangential at best to co-housing. 
Check out alt.hemp for more info.

-tom