In the 1990s, public attention focused on forests perhaps more than at any other time in history. Media coverage of rainforest destruction disclosed what was going on in South America. In the United States, the concern to preserve endangered species, such as the spotted owl and the red cockaded woodpecker, slowed and sometimes even halted logging operations in areas of the Pacific Northwest and the South. People began to realize that tropical rainforests and temperate old-growth forests represented much more than lumber. Ecological concerns began to grow larger than economic ones. And the forest products industry and other business interests began to recognize that, too. This report tells you what's happening to the world's wood today.
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