I explained that getting the kind of harvests we wanted was making us treat the new forests like farm fields. And the free-to-grow rules were being applied to any and all landscapes. Lots of money spread over lots of terrains, usually with reduced plant diversity. Barb and I called it “the fast-food approach to forestry.” The same broad brush applied to all sorts of forest ecosystems was like delivering identical burgers to all cultures, whether in New York or New Delhi.
