: Industrial Timber Plantations - Sustainable?
Dear Philip,
Sustainability is a question of values. Which values humans choose to
sustain is both subjective and arbitrary. As such, it should be known
that
is practically impossible to sustain all values as often we face
tradeoffs.
A conformable
On 14 Oct 02, Philip Owen wrote:
Begging your pardon, I would insist that grasslands are the climax
vegetation for the region, having evolved over at least 200 million
years.
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On Lawrence London's Permaculture list, Mark Ludwig is a strong
advocate of US prairielands. Inspection of
Dear BDNow
Here in Mpumalanga Escarment, South
Africa, most of the original climax
grasslands have been planted to industrial monoculture pine and eucalyptus plantations.
Both these species are alien to the region. These alien timber plantations are
the mother of all monocultures,
