Nelson Wong wrote: > > To members of the Forest List, > > > In the past decade, at least 100 of the more than 140 chip mills in > > the Southeast have been constructed. Annual logging to supply these > > chip mills has been estimated to exceed 1.2 million acres annually. > > > > "Though there has been a vast proliferation of chip mills throughout > > the Central and Southern US in the past decade to supply the pulp and > > paper industry, there is little thorough documentation of the impacts > > of the wood chipping industry despite growing public concern," stated > > Douglas Sloane, Co-Director of the Southeast Forest Project. > > > > Since the beginning of this year, citizens throughout the Southeast > > have been calling for a region-wide study of the impacts of the wood > > chipping industry. > > To call for a region-wide study is a tunnel vision of the wood-chipping > industry. One must really begin with the 'why' question - Why did the > wood chipping industry exist at all? Answer: Paper & wood-pulp. BTW, > wood-pulp is also use in picture frames manufacture. So, 'no wood-chips > = no paper & pulp'. > > Second question, take away the paper & pulp, what do you get? No books, > magazines, newspapers. Meaning no 'Times, The Boston Globe, Wall Street > Jounal, Newsweek, PC World, Bibles, Reader Digest, Playboy, Nikkei, > etc....also no libraries! > > If the wood-chipping industry in the USA is not 'green' enough, why not > import the wood-chips from, say, Canada, New Zealand, Chile, Sweden, > etc... I am sure their forest management could easily rival the USA. So > what's the problem? Forest pests & diseases. Now really? > > So what are the solutions? Fibre, hemp, grass??? Are these the > solutions? Can they meet the demands, specifications, price level, of > the industry? I wonder. > > You know what you need in the USA? Environmental organisations with > their own respectable team of researchers, technologists, business > strategists, who can talk & communicate with the business world. The > business world welcomes solutions, not loud mouths! > > God bless. > > Nelson Wong > MTC Well said, Nelson. One and a half million acres a years sounds like a lot, but it isn't. We could sustain yield that in my own state. Again, keep thinking and posting, friend. Sincerely, Ted
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