Comments on: Good News & Bad News for the World's Troubled Forests

By: John Lerch

John Lerch — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 14:48:09 +0000

I’m not sure what Jim H is saying. His comment seems to miss the fact that the wood from tree farms is infinitely inferior to old growth wood as anyone who has ever worked with wood knows. It also misses the fact that a warming climate tends to make the weather at a given locale much more variable so that 3 years of good growing weather is followed by 3 years of tree killing drought.

By: nick

nick — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 05:12:38 +0000

Now matter how good climate change may be for forests, I predict humanity could well outpace it if we tried. I mean, look at what the US accomplished in 400 years! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Oldgrowth3.jpg (and most of that within the last 150 years)

By: Jim H

Jim H — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 21:07:02 +0000

What are you worried about? Global Warming will be a boom to forestation!