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The word interdependence<\/strong> does not even appear in most Biology textbooks.<\/u><\/p>\n A Forester is only trained to, acts to, and is rewarded by maximizing removal of trees and biomass from a forest for the production of sawtimber, pulpwood or seeds. Foresters are only interested in the health of the specific trees they can remove or use – at the expense of all other forest health including other trees, animals, insects, plants, flowers and soils. Foresters are only trained to see trees as an agricultural product – not as part of a multifaceted interdependent ecosystem. A monoculture tree farm is generally their ideal “forest.”<\/strong><\/p>\n The simple way to remember this is the Ecologists’ goal is vertical trees.<\/strong> Contrary to this is the Forester’s goal is to make trees horizontal.<\/strong><\/p>\n When hiring an \u201cexpert\u201d to assist with health of a forest, whether an \u201curban forest\u201d or a wildland forest it is a serious mistake, both financially and ecologically, to use any expert except an ecologist. <\/strong><\/p>\n Arborists, foresters and even \u201cone species at a time biologists\u201d regularly and systematically make decisions harming the health of a forest ecosystem for decades \u2013 or longer.<\/p>\n When an already imperiled forest is involved, their uninformed and misinformed harmful decisions can put an ecosystem on a path to extinction \u2013 irreversible extinction<\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\n Trying to give agencies the utmost benefit of the doubt, many government agencies in charge of forests, planning departments and environmental consulting firms, \u201cmistakenly believe\u201d (or want you to believe) that a “Certified arborist” or a forester is expert in understanding the health of a tree and the ecosystem it lives in.<\/p>\n The less diplomatic way to put this is that agencies intentionally hire an “expert” who will tell them only what they want to hear – providing them with “green cover” so they can destroy tree ecosystems. Such bogus assessment often end up overturned by courts because they cannot be backed up with scientific research.<\/p>\n In reality, the only genuine expert in forest ecosystem health<\/strong> is (not surprisingly) a Forest Ecologist<\/strong><\/a>. While in the long run hiring a Forest Ecologist is always a less expensive to protect an ecosystem\u2019s health<\/strong>, surprisingly few agencies understand that it is often also less expensive in the short term to hire a forest ecologist.<\/strong><\/p>\n References: Copyright 2003-2011 David Dilworth An Ecologist is explicitly trained in the health of the interdependence of all biota in an ecosystem. A forest ecologist is trained in the health of interdependence of forest biota. While Biologists generally care about biota, … Continue reading (In more than ten years of research, I have yet to find a single one.)<\/ol>\n
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