RE: Industrial Timber Plantations - Sustainable?

2002-10-14 Thread Philip Owen
: 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

RE: Industrial Timber Plantations - Sustainable?

2002-10-14 Thread Rex Teague
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. ---8--- On Lawrence London's Permaculture list, Mark Ludwig is a strong advocate of US prairielands. Inspection of