Living in My Forest
November 26th, 2009 -- Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
I live in the middle of a forest. It is on the edge of East Texas and Louisiana. It is a forest that is undergoing a sad change.
Way too many of our trees are being cut down. Not just cut down, but clear cutting.
It makes me sad.
I understand that we need lumber, I work with wood. I understand that. But in this day and time, I feel that it is incumbent upon those cutting the trees to at the very least, replant. Leave the land in good shape so that the forest can recover. But they don’t. They come in and cut down the trees and leave all the trees that they decided were not commercial just strewn about.
So many of those trees could have been left standing. But aren’t. And replanting could have made the forest come back faster, but they don’t.
It is sad, they don’t see that they are doing harm to the planet and all who share it. But they just see their bottom line. Today they made money. 
I am not against making a profit, but we need to ask ourselves at what cost.
Please lets be a little greener in our outlook today.
Think a little harder about the consequences of your choices, make choices that make sense for the future of our planet.
