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Kelly Bert Manning wrote...

> I don't know about England, but BC Foresters reportedly got a very rough
> reception from the Scottish counterparts when the forest industry sent
> them to Europe to try and scare up allies to "counter" the information
> that native and environmental groups had circulated about BC Forest
> Practices. Apparently BC Practices would not make the grade in Scotland.

They certainly wouldn't.  We would have to grow our trees in rows, kill 
all competing undergrowth, and dump tons of fertilizer because the trees 
don't grow as fast as we'd like.

In Sweden they are saying now that after centuries of these sterile tree-
farming practices, the only way they can get a crop to grow at all is to 
dump massive amounts of fertilizer on it.

I've seen these forests in Sweden, I've seen them in Wales and Scotland, 
and I've seen them in the Forest of Dean in England.  I've seen them in 
Germany.  The only place I've seen them in North America is at a small 
plot in the UBC research forest.  I understand that pine is grown this 
way in Georgia, but don't know for sure.

Certainly European harvesting rates are sustainable, but I doubt if many 
people in North America would consent to seeing our trees grown like 
asparagus or berry crops on any large scale.  They've slaughtered almost 
all their wildlife, so they don't have to worry about this.

E.Schild
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