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- From: asket@acad2.alaska.edu
- Subject: Rainforest Destruction
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.223342.1@acad2.alaska.edu>
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- Organization: University of Alaska
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 02:33:42 GMT
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- This thread may be slipping away from woodworking per se, and more
- toward general resource management or politics, but for what it's worth,
- one of my fellow students in the public policy grad program here at
- the University of Alaska did a forest management study (FM is big up
- here) with a global view. While it does vary from country to country,
- the original writer is correct, overall, the great majority of exotic
- wood is burned down, not logged.
- Even more tragically, he pointed out that in many countries where
- export bans have been imposed, the rural population now simply burns
- down the timber because they can no longer export it, so export bans
- don't always accomplish what they intended.
- Personally, as a woodworker and a human, I would much rather see
- a tree turned into a treasured piece of fine furniture, than burned
- to ashes as an indirect, unintended result of an export ban. This is
- indeed a difficult issue. The ultimate conclusion of my colleage's
- research was that the only way this is going to stop is to give the
- local population the education and economic base to think long term,
- Karl Thoennes
-