'The smaller mills have been shut down but it’s worth remembering a lot of them were profitable. Just not profitable enough.'
I think we can have thriving wildlife populations, functional forests, and we can have jobs. In other words, we can have a truly sustainable forest industry that supports our communities now and into the future.Before the supermills and modern chemical plantation forestry, we had a thriving industry that employed thousands more people and consumed a fraction of the timber while leaving cutblocks full of moose.
Not all forestry investment has been beneficial. Much of the investment in the past 20 years has been aimed at eliminating jobs and maximizing corporate profits. We can have jobs, but we need smaller mills, more local ownership, more competition, and new forms of tenure.To keep these automated supermills running and the billion dollar corporate profits rolling in, we have levelled a huge amount of our landscape and replaced them with “working forests,” with a lot of sprayed and brushed pine plantations, where we clearcut and sprayed out the moose food and fire-resistance with helicopters loaded with Roundup. We are still doing it.
I think the old ways of doing things can provide some answers, but there will be new approaches that need to be discussed as well- including thinning these pine plantations to open them up, reduce fire-risk, get some diversity growing, and keep the pulp mills running.
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