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Fast Food Packaging Media & Outreach Tour--join us!

Dogwood Alliance is kicking off the Fast Food Packaging Campaign in a city near you...

TAKE ACTION: Fast Food Packaging Campaign

Who: Dogwood Alliance and You

What: Fast Food Packaging Campaign: Southern Exposure Media Tour

Where: A City near you—to find a list of planned events, see below

When: Thursday, March 27^th—Thursday, April 15th, 2008

Why: Dogwood Alliance is kicking off the Fast Food Packaging Campaign

Southern forests are too important to be wasted for fast food packaging

Dozens of Fast Food Corporations are buying Packaging from Southern Forests
15% of landfill waste is Fast Food Packaging
The average American throws out 300 lbs. of Packaging Waste every year
“ In 2004, more than half of all the paper produced in the United States was used in paper packaging (AF&PA, “US Paper and Paperboard Production,” 2005).”

Join Dogwood Alliance in challenging corporations to change their habits. Our forests are too important to be wasted for disposable packaging. With nearly 100 paper packaging mills in the South, the packaging decisions of these corporations have a tremendous impact on our forests.

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Louisville, KY:

KFC, 3400 Bardstown Rd in the Highlands, Louisville, KY
When: Monday, March 31st at 11am

Norfolk, VA:

The Ernie Morgan Environmental Action Center, 3500-A Granby St (neart Lafayett Zoo)

When: Tuesday , April 1st 2008 6-7pm

Wilmington, NC

Caper Fear River Watch, 617 Surry St, Wilmington, NC

When: Thursday, April 3rd 6-7pm

Asheville, NC:

McDonalds, 755 Merrimon Ave Asheville, NC
When: Thursday, April 3^rd, 2008

Atlanta, GA:

The Big Chicken in Marietta; 12 Cobb Pkwy N, Marietta, GA 30062
When: Monday, April 14th 11am

Charlotte, NC:

Taco Bell, 5518 South Blvd, Charlotte, NC
When: Tuesday, April 15th, 11am

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"Over half of the forests that are cut down in the US are for Packaging"???
written by Glenn Hughes, March 25, 2008

I challenge this site to defend their statement that:
"Over half of the forests that are cut down in the US are for Packaging."

Please provide peer-reviewed docomentation of the above.

When you say forests are "cut down" I assume you mean clear cut. As a forester in south MS, I can only address my geographic area. This statement is untrue in this area. People do not cut down (clear cut) forests to produce pulpwood for paper. Pulpwood is a by-product of the forest management process that enables landowners to produce higher value products such as Chip-N-Saw, sawtimber, poles, and other products. These forests, by the way, are owned primarily by private landowners, not the forest industry.

We do cut a lot of pulpwood in the South, but it is mainly through thinnings that focus on removing smaller and poorer quality trees, thus leaving better-quality trees as our crop trees. The trees left are the really high value trees, and grow more rapidly after the thinning.

Let's please deal in statements that can be supported by the facts.

I do believe it is important to reduce consumption of paper, energy, and other resources, so I do not take issue with this concept.

Want to *really* learn how forests are managed? Come to our Field Day on Friday March 28, in Sumrall, MS. Details are posted in an earlier blog.

Glenn Hughes.

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The Southern Region and Paper
written by Eva.M.H, March 26, 2008

Glenn,

Thanks for your comment, and we're glad to hear you manage your forest well. Unfortunately, according to the US Forest Service more than 5 million acres of forests are logged every year and its mostly for paper production.

The South is the largest paper producing region in the world. Packaging is the #1 paper product being produced in the region. More landowners should follow a truly sustainable forestry model--our forests are too important to be used for paper and packaging.

We hope people will be inspired by your dedication to sustainable forestry. Best of luck in all your future endeavors.

Eva Hernandez
Organizing Director
Dogwood Alliance

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Did not answer my question
written by Glenn Hughes, March 26, 2008

Eva,

You still did not provide a specific refereed source to back up your claim. I await the source you indicate from the US Forest Service.

In the interim, I will provide my own source that people can indeed reference, and evaluate for themselves who is telling the truth. The Southern Forest Resource Assessment (google it) was a comprehensive review of southern forestry.

In Chapter 13, Figure 14, it shows the "Removals by destination product, 1952-96." For 1996, the most recent year with data, there were almost 10 billion cubic feet harvested, of which 4 billion was for pulpwood.

The crux of the matter, as I indicated above, is that much of this pulpwood was *not* from "forests that are cut down" for packaging. I know the markets best in my area of southeast MS, and am familiar with markets in several other southern states that are *major* timber producers.

I am willing to bet the Dogwood Alliance $1,000, that the phrased I object to, as I (and the public) have interpreted it, cannot be supported.

I believe that pulpwood production through thinnings is great, as it gives the landowner (investor) cash flow to pay the taxes and bills while producing more valuable timber.

Glenn Hughes

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written by Eva.M.H, March 27, 2008

>“…more than half of all the paper produced in the United States was used in paper packaging (AF&PA, “US Paper and Paperboard Production,” 2005).”

>Summary of the USFS Southern Forest Research Assessment(1999), chapter 2, section B:

Clearcutting and other similar forms of even-aged industrial cutting dominate forestry practices across the South. According to the report, over 2 million acres of forests are clearcut each year and an additional 3.3 million acres are cut using seed-tree or shelterwood methods. In effect, 5.3 million acres of forests are heavily logged each year across the South.

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Good Answer Dogwood!
written by 4vrWild, March 27, 2008

The funny thing about science is that it is all in how you read it. I think the important thing here is to read between the lines: too many acres of forests are being logged to make paper which has a dramatic impact on wildlife habitat, special places, important forests for carbon sequestration, air and water quality, and is destroying the quality of life of local community members across the South.

Keep Up the Great Work!

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