Forestry

Division of Forestry Strategic Direction

Statewide Forest Strategy 2010

Statewide Forest Assessment 2010

Forest Sustainability Framework

Statewide Forest Plan 2004

B2. Trend/Issue: Demand for forest products is increasing.


Comment #: 1
Again, while the statement is basicly true, I fail to understand why the DNR must address the issue with a statewide plan. You already own and control our wildlife. Must you own and control our forests? Hands Off!


Comment #: 2
depends on how you look at it.


Comment #: 3
Syrup comes from Maple trees - which you are logging. Mushrooms thrive in certain habitat - so you need to leave the forest alone to meet the demands for these products, not just supply wood.


Comment #: 4
These parts of the forest products industry are going to promote themselves.


Comment #: 5
It would be better to send people to train forest people in other countries to grow, harvest and use what can grow there, than just to cut, sell and ship our wood elsewhere.


Comment #: 6
Not the function of forests belonging to all citizen - (to privide logs for a privat industry - benefitting on a few citizens)


Comment #: 7
There should be more re-cycling and for less ground mail.


Comment #: 8
Products should be second to conservation.


Comment #: 9
Lack of restrictions on foreign wood is hurting forest management in WI


Comment #: 10
Wisconsin's need to more intensively manage forestland to supply the increase demands, not rely on other states/countries.


Comment #: 11
Keep loggin industry healthy, as in the past, but don't sell out to global demand. Sustainability I the key.


Comment #: 12
Forest products sustainably produced in WI are obviously preferable from both an ecological and economic viewpoint to importing from less controlled areas or to shifting demand to non-renewable resources.


Comment #: 13
A lot of product can be used which otherwise is wasted but we should destroy the basic make up of these areas


Comment #: 14
Look for more whole tree chipping of younger, smaller trees on paper co lands


Comment #: 15
harvest the 200 yr old sunken trees in the great lakes


Comment #: 16
We should strive to make our foressts as productive as possible.


Comment #: 17
I think the timber industry is important to WI economy and should stay that way


Comment #: 18
If not here - where is better place?


Comment #: 19
Find more recyclable subsitutes


Comment #: 20
How ? This be dealt with in a forest plan?


Comment #: 21
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Comment #: 22
Will eventually need more synthetic products.


Comment #: 23
Need to provide education to the propulation, that trees and forest are renewable. When managed properly, forest can help meet demand.


Comment #: 24
The more shifting of these demands away from Wisconsin's trees, the better.


Comment #: 25
Conserve to reduce demand: 1. Limit junk mail and unrequested catalogs. 2. Eliminate inserts in news papers. 3. More recycling. 4. Use more plastics.


Comment #: 26
The ecological potential of the land should determine mgmt practices, not demand.


Comment #: 27
We cannot and should not try to keep up with the growing demand for paper.


Comment #: 28
lets increase harvest to nearly equal what we plant and grow each year


Comment #: 29
As population increases, a bad free trade agreement.


Comment #: 30
This trend is obvious. Surely we do something here already.


Comment #: 31
The word DEMAND should be replaced by DESIRE. Forest products are not essential to life


Comment #: 32
Better forest management would help - See attached sheet.


Comment #: 33
Wisconsin needs to appreciate its private landowners who have forests more! If not, they will sell their timber off for a fast dollar to just pay increasing real estate taxes.


Comment #: 34
But use it here not overseas and send it Back!!


Comment #: 35
It is very important that our State inventories are accurate. Industry needs good ? for planning future investments. Too much competition is not always good for our forests.


Comment #: 36
We definitely need to keepo logging WI forest lands, however, the logging that takes place should be done so that it increases the species, age, and genetic divirsity.


Comment #: 37
Yeah, I vote for cutting all of Canada first - unless we run out of money or oil -


Comment #: 38
See B1.


Comment #: 39
Recycling and reuse should be encouraged. Shifting harvests to other countries (with slash and burn mgmt) is not ethical. Wisconsin should be able to meet its own demands for forest products.


Comment #: 40
We waste so much paper and wood in this country. Imports are not the answer - using less/using wisely. I'm not against logging or using forest products. I'm against waste. Tougher recycling laws; make it easier to recycle paper products.


Comment #: 41
Why should the state fret over a private-sector problem?


Comment #: 42
Sto clearcutting - leave various species to have a mixed forest - don't plant pine plantations - monoculture isn't good - widllife can't feed there - no light - only good for stumpage.


Comment #: 43
Allow cultivation of industrial hemp in the U.S.


Comment #: 44
When you're on the seller's end of this it is hard to see an "increase in demand" - try and sell your timber - loggers are hard to get interested!


Comment #: 45
Do not import.


Comment #: 46
A statewide forest plan should concern itself only with increasing production. Producers of products that cannot successfully compete for available forest production must take the initiative in finding production efficiencies and/or alternatives.


Comment #: 47
Good forest management for maximum forest production should have top priority. A good healthy productive forest will provide recreation opportunities as well or better than so called wilderness.


Comment #: 48
Plastics!


Comment #: 49
Needs best satisfied by strong managed forest effort.


Comment #: 50
Maximize use of all species with controlled select logging.


Comment #: 51
Wisconsin is capable of producing more on a sustainable basis.


Comment #: 52
It should decrease - see B1.


Comment #: 53
I think it's a sad state of mind if you're going to cut our forests down just because there's a global demand for wood. $


Comment #: 54
Impacts need to be strongly considered.


Comment #: 55
It is important to recycle, reduce the use of paper and use hemp and other fiber crops that do not require logging.


Comment #: 56
If the demand is increasing the price increased should be up too, but it's not


Comment #: 57
Determine best alternative for this state and the USA and coordinate on a country-wide basis.


Comment #: 58
Let market determine


Comment #: 59
I favour using our own natural resouces where we practice good forestry management versus that of importing from 3rd world countries where no management practices are practiced.


Comment #: 60
There is lots of timber that is not being harvested on State and Federal land that is over mature.


Comment #: 61
Wisconsin enterprises should be allowed to participate in satisfying these demands. It will add to the prosparity of the state.


Comment #: 62
Some say that hemp and other high fiber crops can be greown on marginal ag land for pulp production. This is an area that should not be over looked.


Comment #: 63
Increasing harvesting efficiency could contribute a great deal to meet demand.


Comment #: 64
Create more forests.


Comment #: 65
With the prices of energy skyrocketing rough wood could be a good alternate source.


Comment #: 66
Landowners should be assisted in farming (being made aware of) forest product co-ops so they can share in the profits this demand is providing.


Comment #: 67
Let the private sector market forces rule the economic's of a forest.


Comment #: 68
Make sure Wisconsin recognizes, growing and cultivating trees is farming and land use assessment is below pasture.


Comment #: 69
We should stress the recycling of wood waste products instead of importingmore oil to make plastic.


Comment #: 70
We should use our wood as much as possible for our economic benefit.


Comment #: 71
We're lucky they are increasing - hopefully this will continue.


Comment #: 72
It is important to stress the demand that is met through our forest management and harvesting.


Comment #: 73
Try to import less. That's a prime way of getting more exotic species into the state. Recycling, reuse, and reducing waste and demand are excellent


Comment #: 74
Shifting harvests to other states/countries is not the answer either. By doing that, we are creating problems that will have to be dealt with globally also.


Comment #: 75
In particular, point out that recycling does NOT save trees, you know all the reasons, but recycle to lessen the amount of stuff we bury all over.


Comment #: 76
THe demand will continue to increase. I think we should attempt to look at creative ways to solve this demand, employing LOTS of different solutions, since there never is a silver bullet. Just as in other systems, where the most diverse offer the most stable system, solutions to demand for forest products needs to be diverse.


Comment #: 77
This is an educational issue relating to the proper use and management of a "renewable" resource. Sustainable Forestry Education is key in this discussion.


Comment #: 78
Look for alternatives-promote and educate reuse, recycle


Comment #: 79
This illustrates the difficult balancing act between forest management for forest products versus forest management for recreation.


Comment #: 80
This trend is critical to making sure Wisconsin's forests are "working forests." We cannot allow production to come from other states, because they are probably thinking the same things we are.


Comment #: 81
People want bigger trees, preservation, NIMBY problems. I see the 3rd world countries in big trouble. We can't see them. We get our big trees. We preserve our forest. And they sell their products to use at cheep prices!


Comment #: 82
It is difficult to understand the increasing pressures to set aside our public lands from mangement (especially in the case of the USFS) given the rapidly increasing demand for forest products


Comment #: 83
Focusing on alternatives would be nice.


Comment #: 84
Again, not sure what addressing this would mean.


Comment #: 85
reuse of products, recycling, shifting demand to non-forest products (hemp?) and reducing demand are preferable


Comment #: 86
A statewide plan must address these issues. Ways to encourage the management of the forest lands held by private, non-commercial landowners need to be emphasized in a statewide plan to reduce the demand on the forest resources held by industry and the public.


Comment #: 87
I would like to see the wood products needs of WI citizens served by WI forests. Look to conversion of declining agricultural lands to set up long-term growing areas. Need to also address urban sprawl.


Comment #: 88
with supply demand studies etc, this is essential for forest management


Comment #: 89
Considering the amount of forestland in Wisconsin, and the increasing demand occuring, it's impossible to not make this a strong issue in Wisconsin.


Comment #: 90
Considering the amount of forestland in Wisconsin, and the increasing demand occuring, it's impossible to not make this a strong issue in Wisconsin.


Comment #: 91
Maybe we can start a program that will address our over-consumptive nature and decrease the demand for increased forest products.


Comment #: 92
This needs to be addressed in order to maintain the supply to the public. Otherwise if supply is lost, a big push will be made to harvest forests possibly before they are ready, and we could possibly go through another phase of deforestation across the state and possibly the nation.


Comment #: 93
The US is growing more cellulose than it is harvesting. Like Agriculture forest products have historically provided poor economic returns to landowners because of oversupply.


Comment #: 94
Looking into alternatives and recycling products are extremely important for the future. Different types of management must also be looked into.


Comment #: 95
Looking into alternatives and recycling products are extremely important for the future. Different types of management must also be looked into.


Comment #: 96
We should encourage efficiency in productiong and harvest, so less is wasted. Recycling and Reuse are very important. I don't want to see most of our (or anyone else's) forests turn into tree farms (don't forget multiple use). If non-forest products meet our needs more efficiently (including being environmentally sound), then we should use those!


Comment #: 97
See B-4


Comment #: 98
Demand increases partially because people haven't been given a viable alternative, which there are.


Comment #: 99
Because of the increasing demand we must put more time into strategic management


Comment #: 100
I feel priority one should be making sure that proper management of our industrial forests is occuring. Then if supply still isn't meeting demand, we can look at other means.


Comment #: 101
We should look at the states and the nations inporting and exporting ratio. We needent import the same products we export.


Comment #: 102
In the new order, the economy will see the value of tree farms and reward the tree farmers. This will also give impetus for land owners to pay more attention to the health of their woods. I am excited about the future of our forests. I see good things happening.


Comment #: 103
It may be somewhat selfish, but we should consider the needs of places closest to us, before concerning ourselves with management of our resources to provide pulpwood for development in Florida and California.


Comment #: 104
It becomes increasingly important that forests in the state need to be managed for timber products in a responsible way to promote the sustained yield concept so that the needs of the future can be met as well as todays needs.


Comment #: 105
I believe that the demand for the lumber should be shifted to other states or countries.


Comment #: 106
The bottom line here must be sustainability!

I favor an increase in "smart wood" or "green wood"

certifications even with the inherent (initial)

increase in cost for product (and I say

this as a contractor!) to ensure that

the increased demand does not allow a

"greedy rape" to occur!


Comment #: 107
Through increased public education, the DNR can and should help the public come to grips with their/our obvious hypocrisy. They/we want to have their cake (protected forests) and eat it too (consume more wood and paper products). These factors must be overlaid and reconciled. Ultimately, our version of economic "progress" must evolve from consumption of resources to enjoyment of non-materialistic services.


Comment #: 108
Through increased public education, the DNR can and should help the public come to grips with their/our obvious hypocrisy. They/we want to have their cake (protected forests) and eat it too (consume more wood and paper products). These factors must be overlaid and reconciled. Ultimately, our version of economic "progress" must evolve from consumption of resources to enjoyment of non-materialistic services.


Comment #: 109
We are an extremely resource-intensive society. We need to find a new way to deal with these demands.


Comment #: 110
Supply and demand in the U.S. has produced several

BAD results in the past. We must learn from our mistakes.


Comment #: 111
Understanding the markets that dictate forest management and composition is very important. I would be in favor of regulating the markets to promote sound forestry practices that benefit wildlife and biodiversity. More attention needs to be paid to recycling and reusing.


Comment #: 112
Complex. We hope the shifts in supplies that meet the demands are not done in a way that compromises the environment. Recycling is no where near fully realized.


Comment #: 113
Some people equate a decrease in timber production as a good thing for the environment, however, unless there is a decrease in the demand for forest products it simply means the materials are imported from another part of the country or world. And often times the ecological devastation is even greater in other countries due to lack of standards and regulation.


Comment #: 114
The DNR should encourage a reduction in public consumption of wood products, and research alternative sources of fiber (including agricultural waste products).


Comment #: 115
more forest land


Comment #: 116
mention, but don't waste a lot of space on things that you have little control over. Concentrate your efforts on forest management and its effects.


Comment #: 117
turn to another source


Comment #: 118
would like to see more recycling of wood products and by products of wood. Increase research/technology of alternative/recyclable uses for wood products, by products of wood, plup, etc.


Comment #: 119
Provide funding for increased recycling and reuse of forest products. As one component of this, I suggest promoting community lumber drop off sites similar to the compost sites where people can drop off or pick up what they need. Focus on increasing both the amount of paper collected for recycling and the number of products sold using these recycled materials.


Comment #: 120
So shift demand to sustainable products like syrup and mushrooms and low quantity high quality furniture. For the rest, although I care about the entire planet, I live here in WI. Your forest plan can't address shifting to other states, shifting to non-forest products, etc. - can it?




Comment #: 121
I prefer that some of the above ideas have more priority, specifically: recycling, reuse, reduce demand, shift demand to non-forest products, reduce demand, increase efficiency.


Comment #: 122
Economic benefits from proper forest management are certainly important. Providing the products that people demand without damaging our biosystem is of ultimate importance and must be addressed to prevent overuse and improper management techniques.


Comment #: 123
All of these products are a renewable resource. Replanting is the way to sustain it.


Comment #: 124
Make better use of recycling and reuse of products, including buildngs - dont always have to be new


Comment #: 125
when ever we plan for anything we must take all factors into account


Last Revised: Monday July 30 2007