<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><div dir="auto" class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div class=""><div class=""><div dir="auto" class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Helena-Lewis and Clark National Forest Revised Forest Plan 2020,FEIS, Chapter 3, Part 2</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 238);"><span class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><<<a href="https://www.fs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/fseprd743372.pdf" class=""><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">https://www.fs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/fseprd743372.pdf</span></a>>></span></div></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">“<span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Ultimately, the U.S. market<span class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span></span><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">demand </span><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">for lumber is a derivative for the demand for construction of residential and commercial structures. As a derived<span class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span></span><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">demand,</span><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span>lumber markets tend to reflect shifts in national housing construction rates. Across subsectors, <span class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 251, 0);">residential construction in particular</span> <span class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 251, 0);">is the single largest </span></span><span class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 251, 0);"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">consumer</span><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> of lumber nationwide</span>”</span> p.240</div></div></div></div><div class=""><div dir="auto" class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><span class="" style="font-size: 12px;">————————————————————————————————————======</span></div><div dir="auto" class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><span class="" style="font-size: 12px;"><br class=""></span></div></div></div></div></div></div><span class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 251, 0);">“Serious thresholds are crossed when forests convert to vegetation types without trees... ”<br class=""> </span><br class="">Constance I. Millar and Nathan L. Stephenson. <br class="">Temperate forest health in an era of emerging megadisturbance. Science 21 August 2015<br class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><br class=""></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class=""><div dir="auto" class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="">
<div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;">~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<br class="">Mora (2014) reviews “recent studies showing how the issue of population growth has been downplayed and trivialized among scientific fields.” </div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><br class=""></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;">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.” <br class=""><br class="">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. <br class=""><<<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.5751/ES-06320-190138" class="">http://dx.doi.org/10.5751/ES-06320-190138</a>>></div></div>
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