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Old growth will not exist in a tree farm. So it seems to me that the issue is that a tree farm is NOT a forest. The experts that come from the logging industry only see trees as resources to be extracted. We need to decide what is going to be wilderness and what is going to be a farm. We need wild areas and we need lumber so there needs to be a compromise but I hate seeing our forests ground up to be shipped over to China to be made into cheap furniture and sold back to us in as crap in some WalMart.

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