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[https://www.nrdc.org/bio/courtenay-lewis/how-widespread-logging-canada-escaping-scrutiny by Courtenay Lewis 18/3/19 NRDC] | [https://www.nrdc.org/bio/courtenay-lewis/how-widespread-logging-canada-escaping-scrutiny by Courtenay Lewis 18/3/19 NRDC] | ||
In recent years, Canada has had the third highest rate of intact forest landscape loss in the world, behind only Russia and Brazil. Yet widespread logging in Canada has managed to fly under the radar of international scrutiny. | In recent years, Canada has had the third highest rate of intact forest landscape loss in the world, behind only Russia and Brazil. Yet widespread logging in Canada has managed to fly under the radar of international scrutiny. | ||
=====CHIP MILLS INDUSTRIAL LOGGING RETURNS TO THE OZARKS===== | |||
[https://www.sierraclub.org/missouri/blog/2013/12/chip-mills-industrial-logging-returns-ozarks by Ken Midkiff 17/12/13 SIERRA CLUB] | |||
About one hundred years ago, the forests of the Ozarks Plateau were being leveled. Huge milling operations, established along the streams and rivers, took in logs floated down the rivers or hauled in by mule teams and converted them to railroad ties and lumber to meet the demands of the country’s westward march. Rail lines crisscrossed the area to haul away the milled lumber. | |||
