If only trees were something that grow out of the ground.
Like any other crop.
They make it sound like they’re cutting down the Redwoods or something. Have these people never heard of fast growing pulpwood trees grown for the purpose?
Yup.
It is called tree FARMING.
No different than corn farming except the growing cycle is in years instead of months.
“Like any other crop.”
Corporations which harvest trees operate just as you suggest. Typically, those corporations harvest a white pine and replace it with multiple shoots, so they can in turn be harvested in the future. Regardless of Lynn’s lament, there is no shortage of trees in the U.S. or Canada, there are more now than there ever have been. Corporations have futures too, you know.
I think of trees as solar energy.
Ha ha ha! Love it.
Used to work for a big paper company. I’ve seen the “crop”. If you are ever in an airplane over land near a paper mill, you can see it too. Lots of nice straight rows of pine trees. Or just pay attention while driving in the country. Trees don’t grow in straight lines...
Trees used to make paper are planted like corn - meant to be harvested. Stop publishing your paper and all you do is potentially help someone lose a job.
Hybrid pines that mature in 20 years, all planted as seedlings by the company. Divide your land into 21 sections, leave one fallow, and you have 20 sections, each with trees in yearly harvest rotation. Harvest the 20 YOs, plant seedlings in the fallow section. Wash, rinse, repeat.
Recycling is cool. The paper companies do it, too. But have you ever seen a box stapled together instead of glued at the corner? That means the fibers that made that paper have been recycled so many times, they are too short to hold when glued. Oh - it takes more good water to recycle than it does to produce virgin paper. And the paper mill cleans and purifies any water it discharges.
Paper’s cheap. Enjoy the good stuff.
I’m fighting hedge and locust trees in the pasture every year. I’d be more than happy for a the NYT to come over and make fishwrap out of them, I wouldn’t even charge them all that much.