Forest Facts: Quick Facts about America's Forest,
(Page II)
Wildlife
- Over the past decade, forest products
companies have spent more than $100 million on wildlife
and environmental research.
- As a result of careful forest management,
the white-tail deer population has grown from 4.5
million to over 16 million in the past 30 years;
wild turkeys have gone from near extinction to more
than 4 million today.
- In the 1970's, scientists knew
of only 200 pairs of Northern Spotted Owls. There
are now more than 3,510 owl pairs.
Stewardship
- In 1992, members of the pulp and
paper industry committed themselves to a comprehensive
code of environmental and forest management principles
covering just about every aspect of the industry's
operations.
- America's forest products companies
have also donated more than one million acres of
land -- valued at over $400 million --- for conservation,
recreation, or social causes.
- The Nature Conservancy alone has
received some 760 square miles of forested mountains,
bogs, riverbanks and old growth stands in 28 states.
The Industry
- Nationally the industry employs
over 1.4 million people and produces wood and paper
products valued at more than $200 billion each year.
It ranges from state-of-the-art paper mills to small
family-owned sawmills, small family logging operations,
and some seven million individual woodlot owners.
Source of this information: http://gfagrow.org/facts2.htm
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