Forest Presentation

After listening to David Maywhoor's presentation about forest issues, I felt very much informed on problems with deforestion, logging, and burning of forests. Before, I never really even thought about these issues or realized how many acres of forest are destroyed each year in order to make products for consumer use. Also, I found it very interesting that Forty percent of the trees cut down are used for mulch. That just seemed very odd to me and a strange thing to be using that many trees for. Also, I never knew that they destroy maple trees because they are not as widely sought after as oak. I found David to be very well informed on all the issues regaurding forests and thought that he presented the infromation in a very easy to understand manner. I also liked that he involved us in his presentation by relating these issues back to our majors. I think that we as consumers do need to cut back or limit the amount of paper products we use and try to do a better job of protecting our forests and wildlife living in these areas.