Commentary: Forest Plantations

摘要: Abstract Roger Sedjo and Daniel Botkin suggest in their article “Using Forest Plantations to Spare Natural Forests” (December), that trends toward increased commodity wood production intensively managed plantations might take the pressure off natural forests. The authors imply it would be a good idea, therefore, try remove primary factor they say is obstructing this trend: environmentalists' perception are an alternative forests, rather than logging