no. I see urgent necessity to restore watersheds. Not only in the South where people flee because their
natural support systems are not able to support them anymore ... with water ... with food .... with clean air ....
and in the aftermath with jobs and culture and future .
In Scotland the hills are barren for a while. They became so after sheep were introduced pushing back the forest.
now the sheep must be contained again. Wild boar and beavers and salmon and deer and wolf must restore the forest
Then all the other wildlife forms will return too.
Frank - I hear what you say, but things are never really that simple; what you want is terribly difficult and complex to achieve. And never will be achieved with politicians in charge.
Scotland's deforestation began in neolithic times to provide timber for fires and for shelter; it accelerated when agriculture took hold, to clear the land for crops; but the biggest cause of tree-loss was in providing timber - oak, pine, and larch - for ship-building during England's prolonged wars with France and Spain, and to a lesser extent, Holland. It was people, not forests, which were cleared to make way for sheep, and later deer, on so-called sporting estates.
