[at-l] Drilling & trees, etc...

[bullard@northnet.org (James Bullard)]

At 02:41 PM 1/9/01 -0500, Ramkitten@aol.com wrote:
>In a message dated 1/9/01 1:36:47 PM Eastern Standard Time, sloetoe@yahoo.com
>writes:
>
><< The point is this: "renewable" means "able to renew" -- it does *not* mean
>  "guaranteed to renew." >>
>
>Thank you!! There's been some arguing over this very term, and I thought what
>you just wrote was pretty obvious from the beginning...but I guess it wasn't.
>That's what Charles (in his original post that started this thread)
>meant...I'm pretty sure.

And we might add ... Any discussion of trees as a renewable resource is a 
discussion of managing forests as a resource. Old growth forests are not, 
by definition, "managed" or they would never get to be old growth forests.

Saunterer