Forestry

Division of Forestry Strategic Direction

Statewide Forest Strategy 2010

Statewide Forest Assessment 2010

Forest Sustainability Framework

Statewide Forest Plan 2004

E4. Trend: Global demand for wood products is increasing.


Comment #: 1
Put your energy and finances into an educational recycling program, with incentives for the public sector.


Comment #: 2
Let, or encourage, other nations to purchase wood and wood products from their closest neighbors that grow some forest.


Comment #: 3
Then look to more public forest to maintain the supply.


Comment #: 4
not in a state plan


Comment #: 5
Steps should be takes to REVERSE not support this trend.


Comment #: 6
Only to the extent of a new, and cheaper substitute coming along.


Comment #: 7
Global demands should not take precedent on our own lands


Comment #: 8
Keeping production costs down is important tot the tropical forests.


Comment #: 9
Lets maintain local/national ownership of our forests!


Comment #: 10
don't forget fiber which can be supplied from sources other then forests


Comment #: 11
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Comment #: 12
The ability of the state/ind. & private owners to safety & sustainably manage WI woodlands is a very imp issue


Comment #: 13
#1 season for harvesting #1 season why harvesting should be #1


Comment #: 14
Go to recyclable substitutes


Comment #: 15
Research alternate products.


Comment #: 16
Indicates a need for all forest's to be managed!


Comment #: 17
New solutions are being found.


Comment #: 18
B-8 More efficient use of wood needed world wide.


Comment #: 19
Solar ovens; masonry stoves; passive-solar, thermal-mass, alternative shelter; hempi etc could do a lot to decrease wood demand.


Comment #: 20
Any different than B2?


Comment #: 21
Good!


Comment #: 22
Info only


Comment #: 23
Need alternatives to wood!


Comment #: 24
WI forests should not be managed to meet demand. Reather, mgmt should be based on the ecological sustainability of the forests.


Comment #: 25
I think all of our forests, both public and private, are poorly managed with repsect to their economic and aesthetic capabilities.


Comment #: 26
Just a beginning!


Comment #: 27
Good! Maybe stumpage prices will increase and forest management will become economically feasible and rewarding.


Comment #: 28
Lets do everything we can to hold down impacts as its effect our international balance of payments!


Comment #: 29
Move people!


Comment #: 30
Use our forests for this, don't let people lock them up in "no cut" laws.


Comment #: 31
War famine, disease ued to control world population - that's not politically correct anymore - even birth control is big debate - are the people against birth control going to feed and cloth the world? With What? Question, what kind of plan doe the "new world order" have in store for you or I or our children? Ask Al Gore - he's privy to that information.


Comment #: 32
Before we produce more we need to find new ways to utilize the waaste both timber and product we generate.


Comment #: 33
Again, as in B2, the word demand should be replaced by desire


Comment #: 34
Plans to discourage overbuilding should be started in order to prevent excessive consumption of forest products


Comment #: 35
Need to educate Wisconsinites about reducing their use of wood products.


Comment #: 36
Need stepped up information programs for non active landowners involvement with Tree Farm org., etc.


Comment #: 37
Why do we have to allow this? Wis. Can be a leader in alternatives.


Comment #: 38
Try and find subsitutes when possible i.e. steel framing in houses.


Comment #: 39
Get rid of the computors, look at the paper waste they produce. Sheets and sheets. Years ago 1 sheet, now 4 or 5.


Comment #: 40
As the price of wood products increases there will be new ways of replacing wood. (concrete, steal, wood composites). But I feel there are many acres of forest that if managed properly could return products, diversity and sustainability.


Comment #: 41
Fiber has to come from somewhere. I'm all for making sure that WI is a producer as well as a consumer, if for no other reason than for the public to realize that consumption involves resource trade-offs -


Comment #: 42
We don't have large tracts of preserved public forests like the west. What we do have should be preserved.


Comment #: 43
No-Brainer.


Comment #: 44
Again, use forest products sensibly.


Comment #: 45
On a Global basis, Wisconsin forests probably don't even add to 10% of the global forests. Rain forests in South America and the far east have much more impact on global dynamics.


Comment #: 46
Now the state is talking about sustaining products? How nice for those who manufacture them, but where is the general public good, and what is the state's authority to do so? Perhaps the public good lies in curtailing demand for forest products.


Comment #: 47
Same as before.


Comment #: 48
Explore options to enhance wood products but at same time make products go farther. Thinner paper but is stronger.


Comment #: 49
The trend is to non-wood in most everything. The walnut trees I planted in 1967 will be ripe in 2040 or 50 and may be worth more in our wood furnace than for furniture, etc.


Comment #: 50
Products should stay in the country.


Comment #: 51
More land as part of conservancies.


Comment #: 52
Let's not allow multi-national forest products dictate Wisconsin forest policy for their benefit only!


Comment #: 53
Domestic customers should come first. Don't cut anywhere near more than we can sustain.


Comment #: 54
Don't give up our forests.


Comment #: 55
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Comment #: 56
My comments from E3 apply here also


Comment #: 57
Just think of all the wood that is wasted now


Comment #: 58
Develop wood producing areas solely for the purpose of "cropping" lumber - such as ???


Comment #: 59
See the neitherlands for interland use, efficiency in wood production.


Comment #: 60
Why discuss it?


Comment #: 61
Too much timber on State and Federal land not being harvested. It should be sold before it rots.


Comment #: 62
Wisconsin has capacity to increase its wood products production with threatening the forest land.


Comment #: 63
More education and cost sharing for replanting is needed. In the "60s" a large amount of marginal land was planted to Red Pine - A very successful venture - much of this is now being harvested. I did a considerable amount of tree planting for others at that time.


Comment #: 64
Lets plant more trees.


Comment #: 65
The west or east regions - yes. Here?


Comment #: 66
Recycling


Comment #: 67
Aspen and all its uses is a global significance - yet the trend is a reduction in aspen in the Great Lake States - what a shame.


Comment #: 68
Support the tree farmer by assessing the tree growing land at less than the assesment for pasture. Keep the cattle out of the forest.


Comment #: 69
My comments in C4 also apply here - proper education should help a great deal.


Comment #: 70
You've already addressed this in a previous section.


Comment #: 71
Quality wood products should become more valuable.


Comment #: 72
Managed working forest will be the only answer to meet this demand growth.


Comment #: 73
Wisconsin's forest management has to be received nationally and internationally. Too often only local forest users get input into forest mgmt decisions that impact globally.


Comment #: 74
Will use of pine trees for paper increase or decrease as time goes on. On-line transactions do not require paper (less anyhow).


Comment #: 75
yes-yes-yes


Comment #: 76
Plant more, get more aggressive tax policies to favor forests.


Comment #: 77
Plant more, get more aggressive tax policies to favor forests.


Comment #: 78
Continued reasoning to forget about wilderness areas and encourage good forest management.


Comment #: 79
ALternatives to the increase in demand need to be SERIOUSLY considered and implemented.

There are lots of alternatives and no one solution will be the answer, it needs to be a multitude of options.


Comment #: 80
It is very important to address Wisconsin's relationship to the big picture here.


Comment #: 81
It is time to start thinking globally, WI has never really done much of this


Comment #: 82
As stated above all social entities need to maximize conservation and recycling.


Comment #: 83
It may be more practical to infuse the global perspectives into the appropriate individual issues and address some regional issues instead.


Comment #: 84
Non-management of our local forest lands place more burdens on other forests (rain forests for example)


Comment #: 85
We need to maintain sustainability.


Comment #: 86
My loggers and forest managers are telling me that the demand for North American wood is down and has been down for several years. Who's right?


Comment #: 87
Need to keep supply to the industries.


Comment #: 88
Address at B-4.


Comment #: 89
Find alternatives.


Comment #: 90
See E3


Comment #: 91
Addressed earlier.


Comment #: 92
This can put the forest industry in a leadership role.


Comment #: 93
Slow or stop exportation to make sure we provide for our own first. Why do we let economics of a few effect the ecological base for all?


Comment #: 94
Along with everything else. As the mud hut disappears the frame home appears.


Comment #: 95
Responsible forest management should be encouraged and rewarded.


Comment #: 96
Wisconsin should not have to kill itself for others tolive happily. There can be some kind of happy medium.


Comment #: 97
See earlier comments. But to repeat an

important point: Sustainability at all costs!

Consumers need to start paying for the true cost

of resource utilization!


Comment #: 98
We need more emphasis on non-wood sources of fiber, like kenof and hemp. Family farmers could benefit by growing fiber crops.


Comment #: 99
We need more emphasis on non-wood sources of fiber, like kenof and hemp. Family farmers could benefit by growing fiber crops.


Comment #: 100
I agree - and private property owners should be accountable for managing the land they currently own for what is really their short term on this earth, and taxed or not taxed according to set standards. In otherwords, all the demand for forest products should not fall on public forests.


Comment #: 101
I agree - and private property owners should be accountable for managing the land they currently own for what is really their short term on this earth, and taxed or not taxed according to set standards. In otherwords, all the demand for forest products should not fall on public forests.


Comment #: 102
I agree - and private property owners should be accountable for managing the land they currently own for what is really their short term on this earth, and taxed or not taxed according to set standards. In otherwords, all the demand for forest products should not fall on public forests.


Comment #: 103
I'd hope we don't go down the road of mining our forests like we tried to mine our rivers (ie Perrier)


Comment #: 104
This increasing demand must be slowed and reduced so that forests will always be managed sustainably.


Comment #: 105
the more we build stuff the more wood we use. population is increasing so there is more wood needed




Comment #: 106
Wood is a major material in are lives.


Comment #: 107
Sell less wood to other countrys and keep it all for the US.


Comment #: 108
out of bounds


Comment #: 109
For every tree that is cut down, plant a new tree


Comment #: 110
Promote decreased consumption of forest products per capita since population is increasing and forests are not unlimited. Protect the forests from overharvesting. Promote recycling of forest products.


Comment #: 111
Your forest plan also could address the viability/role of substitutes for timber based pulp, such as industrial hemp.


Comment #: 112
Your forest plan also could address the viability/role of substitutes for timber based pulp, such as industrial hemp.


Comment #: 113
Certainly is true but what can you do about this in a forest plan?




Comment #: 114
You've already ascertained this fact. Is your attention span so short you can't remember asking and telling this twice before?


Comment #: 115
Again, economics should not be the determining factor for forest harvesting and exploitation. Our forest land decisions must be based on sound scientific data, planning and sustainable resources.


Comment #: 116
If we cut the old stuff down,we MUST put new trees in the ground,because it is the right thing to do.


Comment #: 117
More products need to be reused and/or recycled.


Last Revised: Monday July 30 2007