May 11, 2010
Trees play a very basic role in the earth's complex ecological system. Among many other contributions, healthy forests clean our air and water, which allows all life to exist.
Melbourne, Australia, nicknamed "Smellbourne" more than one hundred years ago because of its poor water quality, took measures to protect the mountainous forest regions to its north and east. Today, Melbourne is now recognized as having the highest quality water of any Australian city. Protecting their forests was the key.
Whether you live in the city or the country, what happens in the forests will affect your quality of life. Recreation, food, aesthetics, clean air, clean water, biodiversity--we can't live without them. Unfortunately, forest management has typically focused its efforts on timber production and has, quite literally, failed to see the forest for the trees.
It is time for each of us to step up and participate in the improvement and enforcement of environmental regulations that dictate the health of our public and private forestland. In this issue we focus on some of the ways that you can provide
needed public input to proposed logging plans.
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