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This 3 page report discusses the importance of saving America's trees and briefly considers some of the problems being faced in conservation efforts. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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is. What the student working on this project will want to convey is that an argument has to be made, regardless of ones personal biases, that in order to sustain
the health and natural resource "wealth" of Earth, it is essential that human beings learn how to best integrate social, economic, and environmental needs. It is essential to understand that
economic and environmental concerns must operate on a sustainable continuum. This requires that any sort of logging, conservation, or even an urban "thinning" operation be based on legitimately sustainable principles
rather than greed, an artificial sense of landscape "aesthetics", or even what has come to be called "urban forestry." Too often, operations related tot the care and preservation of trees
have focused on current needs at the expense of compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. Forestry is one of the primary foundations on which a
sustainable society is built. A sensible and self-sustaining society lives within its ecological and economic means and that includes the relationship between trees and humans. More than "Cash Cows"
Daly and Muir (1998) point out that, traditionally, the public forests of America were seen as "cash cows" for both state and federal governments,
"consistently generating timber sale revenues that exceeded the costs allocated for maintaining the resource" (p. 32). They explain that: "Reinvestment was primarily in reforestation, to ensure more trees could be
harvested in the future" (p. 32). The view that trees exist as a crop has served to adjust the attitudes regarding what trees can be used for rather than what
trees actually do for the environment. Therefore, the consideration has to be an understanding of the balance between trees, the environment, and individual (or collective) human agendas. For example, Daly
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