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I don't agree that there are forests that are thought of as worthless. Here in Canada, all forests 'within reach' have been staked and estimated. In some regions individual trees have been identified and been bought alive to be harvested when time comes(not necessarily for paper production). Paper producing forests are now mapped from cold dwarfed old growth stock; those trees are barely 6" diameter and over 400 years old! They even harvest cliff growing stock! The governments even subsidizes those companies for their road building to reach paper crops.
What is now being replanted is usually of paper making species like spruce. All else is out of the question, this way preventing any kind of ecologic balance. And they cry out when some blight destroys whole tracts of wood!
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