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Re:The war on food waste is a waste of time by Spooky23 on Thursday February 27, 2020 @11:07PM (#22440445)
> Forests in the US are renewable because the forest service surveys them and limits their uses so that they will continue to be available.

Not really. More like we already cut them all down and it's easy to have sustainable use of young forests.

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Re:The war on food waste is a waste of time by maxerickson on Friday February 28, 2020 @06:36AM (#22442087)
Also, the US Forest Service only manages national forests, and doesn't really focus on productivity.

An awful lot of forest land is managed by commercial foresters, with an eye towards maximizing the value extracted over long periods of time.

And then there is the management of small plots, which is also often done by commercial foresters, with an eye towards immediately extracting as much value as possible once they convince the landowner to let them do a cut.

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