Contact Information
SFFP
Forestry Sciences Laboratory
3041 Cornwallis Road
RTP, NC 27709
(919) 549-4011
Comments Received at Webinar 3
The table below captures the comments collected during the
input phase of the third
webinar, April 16th at 7 pm.
Comments are grouped by major forces of change.
| Comments | |
|---|---|
Economics |
|
| Energy prices are causing a lot of contradictions, too expensive to haul pulpwood or fertilize. Farms are leaving too. | |
| Forest uses as recreational--this forest has become on the motorcycle route on the weekends. A place of beauty, a little recognition that we have something here that's gorgeous, worth conserving. | |
| People are leasing their places for hunting, riding... | |
| People don't want to raise pine trees, want a nice place to fish. | |
| Sleepy until the hurricane, now it's much faster. | |
| The whole timber industry was affected by Canada or more recently areas where there is deforestation. | |
| What we need economically is "close to home" - generating electricity nearby so transmitting is so hard | |
Institutions |
|
| Carbon credits - people talk and read a lot about it; lots of pros and cons on this market; it really is an incentive | |
| Farm bill is real helpful at providing herbicides to control invasive exotic plants, landowners couldn't afford doing it otherwise | |
| Sad if they pass the farm bill as it stands | |
| Some of the farm subsidies are really bad locally and globally | |
| The tax "basis" - so many people so upset when they lost so much money but had no basis following the hurricane, hence could not take any losses on their taxes | |
Land Uses |
|
| Got to treat every tree in the woods as valuable, useful, not damage so much when logging | |
| If we stopped importing this cheap lumber from rainforests, our own trees would be worth more, returns would be greater | |
| The more you emphasize recreation, the more you implement social change, inform them on the difference between a park and a farm | |
| We need to use fire; it's hard to get a permit; people complain about the smoke | |
Biological |
|
| Cogon grass is horrible | |
Physical |
|
| Hurricane Katrina knocked anyone sitting on the fence about selling their forestland into selling and getting out of there | |
| Maybe if we had a public trust to purchase lands when large amounts are put up for sale, just for a little while, to be a buffer to permit better resolution | |
| Severe weather is happening now | |
Forest Management |
|
| Markets are unrealistic, based on destruction of the rainforests, need to start globally enforcing this | |
| Water is really, really a big issue, and deforestation of the United States is lowing the water table | |
Last Modified: 04/18/2008