[Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - boundary=forestry(_compartment) relations

[Michael Patrick]

> > is this universally shared and an exhaustive definition of the term, or
> is it just describing a sustainable variant of forestry?


> In other words, if you cut down (for example) a virgin forest and only
care for transporting and managing the timber, with no reforestation of the
areas, could this form of "predatory exploitation" still be called
"forestry" or would that be stretching the term beyond the general
expectations of a native English speaker?

It is a type of forestry, and some management plans include such practices,
in as much they are 'reality' and have impacts. Removing trees and not
reforesting is becoming more common, open areas improve habitat for species
that inhabit the margins, and also replicate the previous conditions where
much smaller natural burns provided these clearings.

As I read through the description of the state of affairs in Africa, every
state of affairs mentioned, occurs in the Western United States ( including
the government revoking an unanticipated profit making concession, and
later transferring it to a favored agent http://bit.ly/2NesU1V ).Various
tribes have treaty rights for hunting, fishing etc. well outside the
reservation boundaries, for instance. Armed locals taking over a bird
sanctuary. Cambodian mafia controlling the gourmet mushroom harvest
locations, and cartel marijuana cultivations. Local destroying or moving
re-survey monuments. Turf wars of control or neglect between government
entities. Tribal police detaining state fish and game wardens. I'm sure
there is even more weirdness back East, where they have had longer to
complicate things.
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