I just posted an interview that I conducted with Rod Lowman, president of the Abundant Forest Alliance, a trade group that aims to educate the public about how forestry and forest products fit into the web of sustainability.
On the subject of forest health, Lowman replied:
“We replant about 1.7 million trees a day, well over 600 million trees a year. In terms of annual growth, we’re reaching nearly twice as much new growth as is harvested every year. That’s why there are more forests today than there were 20 years ago.
Sustainability is a key element of what we’re trying to communicate both to the public and the policy makers so that they understand, when they are thinking through natural resources and sustainable resources, that there is hardly any resource that’s more sustainable than trees. Trees are needed for homebuilding, for paper, for many more types of product. We can easily go out and replant and reharvest because we’ve staged it such that we know when trees are ready to be harvested to turn into these products.”
You can read the full interview here.
