How much gov and biz ravages depends often where you live. Some forest communities have the push and competence to become masters of their destinies, running the industry from the bottom-up, as we do in Nova Scotia, the most radical institutional change on the continent.
Governments delegated their private lands responsibilities to landowners and mills dropped in line after they proved the only way to reach their forestry and environmental goals, at a fraction of the cost with no public blowback, was to turn away from the old top-down technocratic and bureaucratic control.
I've told the story here before but it bears recounting at these junctures of economic and social uncertainty that countries and communities don't need to suffer from savoury or unsavoury political mismanagement if they know the tools of influence and communications and how to use them.
Apologies again for heavy during our celebratory spiritual days although a message that the world isn't going to hell where the people take their civic responsibilities seriously should always be worth a toot. Toot toot.
