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Plucking trees like toothpicks

Vast tracts of Canadian forests have been clearcut, destroying ecosystems and soils that have taken thousands of years to evolve, and often leaving a wasteland. It's largely out of the public eye because logging companies leave a narrow buffer of uncut trees beside the highway. In many cases, it also makes little economic sense.

 

Learn more about forests, forestry, clearcutting and the alternatives:

Greenpeace: www.greenpeace.org/canada/en/campaigns/boreal

Falls Brook Centre: www.fallsbrookcentre.ca/forestry/

Windhorse Farm: www.windhorsefarm.org/forest.htm

Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clearcutting

Google Directory: directory.google.com/Top/Science/Environment/Forests_and_...

More: www.planetfriendly.net/forests.html

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Uploaded on June 30, 2009
Taken on June 30, 2009