World. From small acorns huge oak trees grow, and developing techniques like these produce benefits on an exponential scale as their use spreads and they are refined, and it is not possible to calculate the long-term benefits to humanity. Yet when I told people I was a forester, they would inevitably reply 'Oh, you chop down trees'!!!! arthur lyons : 25 Nov 2008 12:12:21pm Mark Poynter as usual calls the shots correctly. He is one of the very few contributors to the forrestry debate whose articles are immacuately researched, based on science, and generally imnpartial. He should be respected for his efforts irrespective of whether we agree with him or not. If all contributors to the debate were as judicous as Mark, then the debate would have the freedom to move forward toward an outome. Groucho : Hugo Agogo : 28 Nov 2008 10:26:43am Arthur Lyons is the pseudonym for Arthur Lyons. He is an intelligent forester involved in planting trees. Groucho, we will be marking your spelling very closely from now on. We gave up on your logic some time ago. Michael C : 25 Nov 2008 11:54:24am Poynter's essay is itself failry biased, twisting the facts and while decrying celebrity activism seeks to assasinate Flanagan's character and conflate attacks on Poynter himself with Flanagan's public essays and TV appearances. Based on Poynter's essay you would have the impression that Lennon's 'venomous' retort to Flanagan was due to Flanagan's ill-informed anti-forestry writing. This is not the case. Lennon said