Just one point * Ms. Hart*s comparison of *saving* trees to *saving* wheat =
by not eating bread suggested a good illustration to explain the issue. =
*Saving trees* through recycling is a lot like *saving water* in a water =
conservation program. Yes, trees and water are renewable resources, but =
that does not mean that we cannot develop critical shortages of them (as =
we are seeing with water in San Antonio and El Paso). =20
In regard to tree plantations, Ms. Hart shows the typical ignorance of the =
fact that *saving trees* really means reducing pressure for harvesting, =
which allows more land to be managed as wilderness habitat instead of =
high-yield silviculture. Reducing paper consumption is not sufficient to =
ASSURE that more land goes into conservation management, but it is a =
NECESSARY step toward that goal. =20
Critics tend to unreasonably dismiss a specific conservation effort if it =
does not, in and of itself, provide a complete solution to the problems it =
addresses.