This announcement is basically generalities. The real importance will be in 
the details. I hope there really is a new perspective toward forests. 
Vilsack has always been a corporate lackey so I think we need to be vigilant. 
 
One point did fly out at me. He talks of using forests as a source for 
biofuels. This seems to continue the view of foresters that forests are crops to 
be planted, managed and harvested for human consumption, not as a part of 
the ecosystem in their own right. 
 
Wally Taylor

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