[MCN] Put most briefly : Residential home construction, and the forests

[Lance Olsen]

Helena-Lewis and Clark National Forest Revised Forest Plan 2020,FEIS, Chapter 3, Part 2
<<https://www.fs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/fseprd743372.pdf <https://www.fs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/fseprd743372.pdf>>>

“Ultimately, the U.S. market demand for lumber is a derivative for the demand for construction of residential and commercial structures. As a derived demand, lumber markets tend to reflect shifts in national housing construction rates. Across subsectors, residential construction in particular is the single largest consumer of lumber nationwide” p.240
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“Serious thresholds are crossed when forests convert to vegetation types without trees... ”
 
Constance I. Millar and Nathan L. Stephenson. 
Temperate forest health in an era of emerging megadisturbance. Science  21 August 2015



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Mora (2014) reviews “recent studies showing how the issue of population growth has been downplayed and trivialized among scientific fields.” 

He argues that human population size, “...despite being directly or indirectly linked to the deterioration of ecological systems and a key factor for the success of conserving species and ecosystems, has been rarely considered and in fact ‘trivialized or ignored’ by much of the conservation biology community.” 

Mora, C. 2014. Revisiting the environmental and socioeconomic effects of population growth: a fundamental but fading issue in modern scientific, public, and political circles. Ecology and Society 19(1): 38. 
<<http://dx.doi.org/10.5751/ES-06320-190138>>

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