As European-based forestry marched across America in the early 20thcentury resource extraction was king and only fast growing ‘timber’ species were favored. All others were banished to the apartheid of arboreal under classes. This caste system committed the “unmerchantables” to a fate of staggering abuse, if not outright genocide, in the name of progress. In the West, aspen, birch, cottonwood, piñon and limber pine, and others were burned, bulldozed, bashed and otherwise berated to make way for preferred stems. In a sort of Jim Crow of forestry, these species were figuratively spit on for decades.
-- Paul C. Rogers
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