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Successive re-cutting of trees is not sustainable because you totally ignore the vast amount of the ecosystem's mineral content tied up in every "crop" of trees. A cut forest is no longer a forest. A tree-plantation cannot ever be a forest. Clear-cutting is the most PROFITABLE way to harvest wood - the most effective way to PRODUCE wood is KEEP OUT of the forests! "Forestry," like fishing is Theft disguised as employment. You CANNOT FIX a broken ecosystem. If it ain't broke, don't break it! Duh.

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Well said. This is rarely mentioned but absolutely vital. A couple of mature growth cycles is all it takes to reach degradation that will take aeons to undo.

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