Hello fellow listnetters. I have been follow the Sweet Home exchange with interest, not only for the content, but also for who is sending what from where. I would be interested in where you all live--i.e., states and countries and would like to suggest that you indicate this general information when you respond. I think the separate policy listserv might be a good idea. I have just returned from a Fulbright in Santa Catarina, Brazil and have found that the Brazil's national forest regarding protecting native forests has had the unintended effect of increasing deforestation in Santa Catarina's native forests rather than curbing it. Are there any other examples of this out there? Where national forest policy has had unintended effects, particularly in regard to deforestation. One wrinkle on Santa Catarina is that ALL of Santa Catarina's forests, which make up 16% of the remaining 20% forest cover in the state, are listed as threatened--the only state in Brazil where this occurs. Santa Catarina's primary source of energy at the rural domestic and industrial level is fuelwood...so one can see how it is difficult for subsistence populations dependent on eneryg to respect the forest laws..... sandy hodge social forestry Virginia TEch Blacksburg, Virginia.
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