Tennessee Forests Council is a unification of citizens,
environmental, conservation and grassroots organizations who
have come together for the common purpose of protecting the
forests of Tennessee through progressive forest policy
reform. TFC bases its positions on sound forest science and
economic principles.
Collectively, TFC represents the voices of
10 organizations and over 12,000 Tennesseans who
support forest policy change that brings forest extraction
methods and rates into balance with ecological integrity.
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Industrial forestry is changing Tennessee's forests and
ecology:HARVEST
RATES
• The South now cuts more
timber than the rest of the USA combined and more than any
other country in the World. (SFRA)
• Over 2 million acres of native forests
were cut in Tennessee between 1989 and 1999. Over 500,000
acres were clear-cut. (FIA)
• To feed the South’s 98 paper mills alone
takes 175 million tons of trees per year. The 7
million trucks required to deliver these trees would circle
the earth's equator 10 times. (TFW)
• The trucks required to deliver all the
trees cut in Tennessee would stretch nearly 4000 miles. (TFW)
• Tennessee cuts over 4 million tons of
pulpwood each year and more than half of this comes from
native hardwood forests.(SRS/USFS) |
Bowater Clear Cut Cumberland Plateau
Hillside Clear Cut in Tennessee
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