forested

The forest industry claims that only "3.9 percent of the forested acres" has been harvested since 1954.

It begins with progressive public policies--federal, state, and local--in forested rural areas to encourage a vibrant forest economy: economic development incentives to manufacturers and loggers, supporting tax policies, targeted worker training and education, functional roads and bridges, coordinated and efficient state and federal agency processes.

By 2015, analysts predict, they will have sold a forested area as large as New England, leaving their combined land base smaller than the state of Indiana.

More than 90 percent of Vermont was forested in the early 1700s, and nearly that amount is forested today, but in between, before timbering and farming shifted West, two-thirds of the forest was denuded by settlers cutting wood for houses and clearing land for fields and pastures.

I hope that others who own forested land will follow Ara Berberian's example and work to protect their land for future generations.