As go our forests, so goes our environmental future
By Michael W. Shurgot / Herald Forum
“Once again, President Trump is removing absurd obstacles to common sense management of our natural resources by rescinding the overly restrictive roadless rule,” said U.S. Secretary of Agriculturre Brooke Rollins in announcing recission of the federal Roadless Rule last year.
“Deforestation was a or the major factor in all the collapses of past societies described in this book,” reports Jared Diamond in his book, “Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed.”
The above statements represent two diametrically opposed views of the environmental importance of forests.
The first was quoted by Lynda Mapes in her essay “Wild Alaska At Risk,” published Jan. 4, in Pacific Northwest magazine. The second, from Diamond’s 2005 tome on the history of catastrophic collapses of entire civilizations, summarizes much of his extensive research into past societies that have engineered their own demise through egregious mismanagement of their natural resources, especially forests.
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