Sustainable forestry
An article on sustainable forestry, appeared in The Ecologist, An inspirational forester, by Phil Morgan.
Talis Kalnars was a pioneer of 'continuous cover' forestry in Britain. His woodlands were not only beautiful but profitable, as he nurtured the 'natural capital' of the forest ecosystem, and only harvested the dividend of high value timber.
He believed in mixed forestry, as opposed to growing conifers
and deciduous species separately, and saw the biodiversity this fostered as
part of successful forestry.
"I knew something was
lacking and thought that there had to be a system of forest economics based on
securing the forest in perpetuity - not always starting and stopping...
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