How do we live in a world where humans require shelter in many forms AND balance that with what forests require? And, how do we do this differently than before?

Wood Summit
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Two quick responses, Pat:

  1. I agree that it’s a rainbow / spectrum, and not black & white / binary. I think I’ve made that point a number of times already, but obviously it bears repeating. Also, I don’t believe the spectrum goes from “evil/greedy” to “good/altruistic,” or whatever the opposite would be. I think we’ve done some pretty terrible things to our forests in the past, including fairly recently with the liquidation of too much old growth in the western states (I’m old enough to have been around for the timber wars) – but I do believe that forestry has come a long way and that forest landowners and managers are mostly good and caring people (same goes for enviros BTW). So the question may be, can the good people on this forum, with our different perspectives and life experiences, work together to continue to improve our collective relationship to forests? We have to see if we can agree on where we want to go, or I’m not sure it will be possible to do much more or different than what’s happening already.

  2. I’ll take you up on the tour offer! Love to get out in the woods and learn.