And I still believe that even though I would like to see native forests, any forest is better than no forest because a forest provides so much more habitat than any annual food crop. A forest must have trees but a forest is more than just trees. Not easy to state categorically. There is a big debate about whether forestry and trees can play a real role in reducing greenhouse gas emissions, particularly CO2. I believe they can, if we focus on using wood as a renewable source of fuel energy.
Research is well along to convert wood wastes into liquid fuel for transportation.
Unfortunately, this means converting vast tracts of native forest to a monoculture crop. If we could use wood we could have forests instead. That's all for this week folks. May the forest be with you.