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...main value is the maintenance of biological diversity," said Wilson. "When you cut a natural forest and replace it with farmland or a tree farm, you go from thousands of flowering plant species...to perhaps one tree species and a tiny number of organisms associated with...
...These are one-of-a-kind ecosystems," said Dominick A. DellaSala, former director of U.S. forest conservation for the World Wildlife Fund and currently the director of its Klamath-Siskiyou regional office, who drafted the letter. "We lose these ecosystems, there's nothing to replace them...
According to Danna Smith, executive director of the Dogwood Alliance, a North Carolina-based forest advocacy group, Southern forests are already beginning to show the strains of increased logging...
...according to Cathy A. Dunn, vice president of corporate communications for Willamette Industries, forest products companies that own the chip mills do not encourage any specific type of logging. Private landowners harvest the timber and then sell it to the chip mill for processing, she said. Willamette owns 10 chip mills...
...said the logging that often occurs to feed chip mills instead produces "a good, diverse, representative forest" as no group of trees are favored over others...