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No Denudes is Good DenudesThe Forests existent in much of New England such as Vermont and New Hampshire are, by and large, new growth. In the early times of about the mid 20th Century, vast swatches of the New England landscape were virtually denuded. In the colonial days, New England served also as the "China" and the "Vietnam" of the textile industry where Old England outsourced it's labor of textile work to the colonial mills along the New England river ways. Denuding the landscape of forests is treason, as in "trees in" the ground. The forest systems are the only effective way to sequester carbon dioxide. It's done naturally and the oxygen is returned to the atmosphere. But there is a balance. The mini ice age of the mid-nineteenth century may have been the result of not only excessive volcanic activity, but also perhaps an overbalance of forest natural growth. Enter a new era for the poor old forestry industry, the carpentry industries (cottage and large), and those who use hardwood for fuel: They also have an ecological niche in releasing carbon dioxide into the food chain. Copyright (c) 2005 by Paul A. L. Hall. All rights reserved.
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