[nothal]

It's really wild to me that investors realizing foresting exists and continues to exist because it makes money is a story. I did forestry related club stuff in high school for a program called Envirothon and there's a rich history of silviculture in the US and Europe going back a long ways. IIRC, we actually have more forest in the US today than 100 years ago because of silviculture. Notably, the Vanderbilt's started modern silviculture in the US and introduced all sorts of interesting measurements only relevant to foresters to the US like a chain (66 ft imperial) or Diameter Breast Height (the circumference of a tree at 4.5 ft, because that was right around the breast of your average heighted forester).

[hef19898]

Fun fact, one of the first detailed concepts of sustainability comes from forestry in Germany by Hans Carl von Carlowitz in 1713.

https://www.forstwirtschaft-in-deutschland.de/index.php?id=5...

[riffraff]

Japan also started protecting forests and managing them sustainably a long time ago[0], in the Edo period (1603-1868).

[0] https://www.nippon.com/en/features/c03912/