Re: [ecopath] Forestry

[Gene GeRue]

Jeff:

>Anyway, i like the idea of combining economics and forestry
>but would not want the tail to wag the dog.  The economics
>should not dominate.  Instead the ecology should be first and
>that should define the economics.

Economics will always dominate. Debating "shoulds" is a waste of time. A
few of us who control small forests think of shoulds; those who run
corporations and politicians think of profits. That is the history and that
is the future.