Originally Posted By: Art_in_FL

The down side is that a tree farm, particularly a pulpwood farm, is a dismal place.

Disease tolerance is another problem. Farmers learned a long time ago about the value of crop variation & rotation. The Chestnut Blight ought to be a cautionary tale...

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I keep this in mind when I read the tracts from the forestry people that tel me 'there are more trees planted now than some earlier time'.

A few hundred square miles of pulp forest is a drop in the bucket compared to the size of the US.

I have some land at my weekend cabin that I maintain as Wildlife Habitat for tax reasons. I have the Forest Service out regularly to inspect and plan activities as part of that program. In general conversations the only things truly harmful things they've complained about that stand out to me are the lack of natural wildfires, the severe overabundance of deer, and some specific tree diseases.