{"id":485,"date":"2010-03-22T06:15:56","date_gmt":"2010-03-22T10:15:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/reforestation-for-profit.html"},"modified":"2010-03-22T06:15:56","modified_gmt":"2010-03-22T10:15:56","slug":"reforestation-for-profit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/reforestation-for-profit.html","title":{"rendered":"Reforestation for Profit"},"content":{"rendered":"It seems that reforestation and land restoration\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/the-jobs-are-in-the-trees-reforestation.html\">produces twice as many jobs as biomass and nine times as many as nuclear.<\/a>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ugapress.org\/index.php\/books\/art_of_managing_longleaf\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" border=0 src=\"http:\/\/www.ugapress.org\/images\/ugapress\/books\/9780820330471.jpg\"><\/a>\nNor does any of this have to adversely affect the Georgia lumber industry.\nIt&#8217;s well established that the currently popular method of clearcutting\nisn&#8217;t the only way.  Pine forests can be managed profitably\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Longleaf-Pine-Ecosystem-Silviculture-Environmental\/dp\/0387296557\/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&#038;s=books&#038;qid=1267050069&#038;sr=1-3\">\nvia selective logging<\/a>;\nhere&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Art-Managing-Longleaf-Personal-Stoddard-Neel\/dp\/0820330477\/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&#038;s=books&#038;qid=1267050255&#038;sr=1-2\">\nmore about that.<\/a>\n<p>\nThat permits the forest to remain a forest, with native vegetation,\nwildlife, hunting, recreation, flood control, etc., all for more\nforests than we have now.\n<p>\nPlus carbon sequestration credits.\n<p>\nCotton farmers might like growing trees better under such economic conditions.\n<p>\nAll this is shovel-ready for stimulus.  There&#8217;s no new technolgy\nto develop for forest planting or management.  Just implement\ncarbon-sequestration credits for ongoing sustainability, and perhaps\nuse stimulus funding to speed planting trees.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It seems that reforestation and land restoration produces twice as many jobs as biomass and nine times as many as nuclear. Nor does any of this have to adversely affect the Georgia lumber industry. It&#8217;s well established that the currently popular method of clearcutting isn&#8217;t the only way. Pine forests can be managed profitably via [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[7,40,70,36],"tags":[1607,1606,3,1369,1617,1368,1618,172,1449,2772,1619],"class_list":["post-485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-agriculture","category-economy","category-longleaf","category-silviculture","tag-cap-and-trade","tag-carbon-sequestration","tag-georgia","tag-herbert-stoddard","tag-land-restoration","tag-leon-neel","tag-lumber","tag-profit","tag-reforestation","tag-silviculture","tag-stimulus"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Gj0O-7P","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}