Dana Beach, founder of the S.C. Coastal Conservation League, doesn't consider this a forest. He calls it a tree farm. Ed Muckenfuss, manager of Westvaco's half-million acres of South Carolina timberland, is offended. The only difference is that instead of letting seeds fall on the ground and grow in a random pattern, we went out and planted them. But you're saying that just because Mother Nature didn't do it, it's no good.
Beach looks out the window.
The pines keep marching by. I would not call this a forest. The van rolls to a stop. If you use that definition, then I'm comfortable with being called a farmer. By intensively farming the land we do farm, we make other lands available for other uses - including wilderness uses.