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   Dimensional Traveler to spike1@freenet.co.uk   
   Re: 40-yr-old reruns of Star Trek beatin   
   26 Apr 10 18:40:04   
   
   XPost: rec.arts.sf.tv   
   From: dtravel@sonic.net   
      
   On 4/26/2010 8:21 AM, spike1@freenet.co.uk wrote:   
   > And verily, didst J G Miller  hastily babble thusly:   
   >> On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 12:23:53 +0100, spike1 wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> We're in the 21st century now, not the 19th. We don't chop down forests   
   >>> for wood and paper without replanting. At least, not in the developed   
   >>> world.   
   >>   
   >> I may be wrong, but I thought that the developed world in the case   
   >> of Europe, now imports the bulk of its raw supplies for paper from   
   >> the Russian Federation, where the forests are not always being   
   >> replanted?   
   >   
   > What forests there are in the UK are now all sustainble, replanted by the   
   > forestry commission, managed. Dunno about russia, but I imagine most of the   
   > EU handles their woodlands in a similar way. I'd be pretty shocked if the   
   > US and canada didn't do the same too.   
      
   The US still does some logging of "wild" forests but the percentage of   
   wood products coming from tree farms has been steadily increasing for at   
   least 40 years.   
      
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