The day was devoted largely to the hearing of expert testimony, chiefly on the relations of the forests to wood, power and navigation. Mr Gifford Pinchot, forester, showed that a wood famine is but twenty or thirty years distant. Messrs, Lee, Schoen, Swain, and others, showed the vast significance of water and electric power, and the dependence of both upon forests. The filling of the streams, the loss to navigation, and the cost to Government to remove the sediment was brought out. Forestry and Irrigation 14(3):124 (March 1908) David South School of Forestry Auburn University, AL 36849-5418 dsouth@forestry.auburn.edu 334-844-1022 334-844-1084 (FAX) As always, views expressed here are my own (and I am not speaking on the behalf of others). I use only 100% post-consumer paper in my home printer. (discarded used office paper printed on one side) http://www.forestry.auburn.edu/coops/sfnmc/sfnmc.html ========================================================================= The world population is expected to double by the year 2100. Therefore the annual demand for wood for energy (etc.) will increase and might double (to more than 7 billion m3/yr). To provide plantation wood for people in the future, support the planting of trees on pastureland. Set a goal of converting 8 million ha of pastureland/yr for the next 55 years. This would increase tree plantations to about 5% of the world's landbase. ========================================================================= Support Zero Population Growth for the United States http://www.igc.apc.org/zpg/index.html
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