Re: Hemp and multiple-use?

• To: Cris Brack <Cris.Brack@anu.edu.au>
• Subject: Re: Hemp and multiple-use?
• From: "C. Hobart Perry" <hperry@mercury.forestry.Umn.EDU>
• Date: Fri, 14 Oct 1994 15:54:29 +0200
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On Wed, 12 Oct 1994, Cris Brack wrote:

> So, even if hemp could produce more fibre than a plantation of trees, it is
> not necessarily better to plant hemp rather than forests or plantations.
> Trees are more than fibre! Forests and plantations are managed for more
> things than fibre. Natural resource managers must consider all the benefits
> to all the members of society and cannot accept a simple black and white
> answer than more fibre is better.

Well said. Multiple use considerations are (or should be) critical in
watershed management decisions. The assessment of all available products 
produced by a stand (including recreation, protecting biological 
diversity, etc.) can strongly influence conceptions of stand value. 

Maybe this will lay the feud to rest.

	Hobie
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C. Hobart Perry         hperry@mercury.forestry.umn.edu 
Dept. of Forest Resources, Univ. of Minnesota, St. Paul

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