I was in Washington a few years ago and went to the timber industry museum. It was fascinating. Private land owners and lumber companies own immense amounts of lands. They can be harvested every 30-50 years, and they go it in chunks, so that it's not just strip clear cut every tree for 50 miles. This helps with erosion, regrowth, etc. Driving along, you could see old growth forests, clear cut areas, young growth, etc., and all had different ecosystems and supported different wildlife (birds, mammals, etc.).
Additionally, millions of acres is National Forest land. This land is managed by the governemnt TO allow lumber harvesting in a sustainable way.
tl;dr, you want to live in modern society, you need wood, which naturally sequesters CO2 from the air, and to get wood, you need a timber industry.
It's a win win.
(Not to destract from the fact that this troon is a freak.)
It is a bit weird to drive through those forests. Every tree is in exact rows and the area is specially cleared. The natural not being that way is eery once you see it.
It likely depends on local ecosystem, but I recall the trees re-planted in cut boreal forest I passed by going to hunting trips. They would mostly die quickly, and the slow natural regeneration similar to that following a forest fire would simply do its thing as if they didn't bother trying.
A.K.A. "sustainability/climate change propaganda"
I was in Washington a few years ago and went to the timber industry museum. It was fascinating. Private land owners and lumber companies own immense amounts of lands. They can be harvested every 30-50 years, and they go it in chunks, so that it's not just strip clear cut every tree for 50 miles. This helps with erosion, regrowth, etc. Driving along, you could see old growth forests, clear cut areas, young growth, etc., and all had different ecosystems and supported different wildlife (birds, mammals, etc.).
Additionally, millions of acres is National Forest land. This land is managed by the governemnt TO allow lumber harvesting in a sustainable way.
tl;dr, you want to live in modern society, you need wood, which naturally sequesters CO2 from the air, and to get wood, you need a timber industry.
It's a win win.
(Not to destract from the fact that this troon is a freak.)
It is a bit weird to drive through those forests. Every tree is in exact rows and the area is specially cleared. The natural not being that way is eery once you see it.
America is vast and full of hard wood.
It used to be just called "Forestry" or "Forest Management."
I majored in it back in 1978, but flunked out because I couldn't hack statistics or organic chemistry (very bad at math).
It likely depends on local ecosystem, but I recall the trees re-planted in cut boreal forest I passed by going to hunting trips. They would mostly die quickly, and the slow natural regeneration similar to that following a forest fire would simply do its thing as if they didn't bother trying.