Working Forests: A Natural Climate Solution

The New Yorker Brand Studio explores a working forest outside of Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina to learn how sustainable planting and harvest strategies ensure healthy forests for years to come. #ad

[@alexanderlong1711]

Thank you for the video.
Sustainability doesn't just mean planting a crop after you’ve harvested a crop. It is the long term viability (sustainability) of your approach.
I’ve been to the Roanoke working forests. The soils, and therefore the long term viability of the approach, are degrading over time. I recall my father in law bringing us to a national forest in SC to drive around. I was horrified. Loblolly pine in rows is so obviously a crop, not a forest.
I do however accept your clever distinction of “working forest”, and I agree that forestry has enormous potential to be the keystone of solutions to modern problems. I just believe that there is a lot more to this than your video covers.

[@uggali]

Please come and save our forestry industry in NZ the industry is dying out for complex reasons but i think it can be revitalised with native trees. NZ native tress are slow growing but we have many quality endemic timbers adapted to almost all terrain across the country as prior to human arrival NZ was more than 2/3 forested

[@rustommeyer1746]

How exactly do vast monocultures, often of non-native species, help the ecosystem?

[@timberray9572]

Germany and Austria are being devastated right now by the Pine Beetle, proving that mono cultures are not working.

[@rensspanjaard]

native people would laugh at us, calling this a forest? its a plantation ! supporting no life !