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Article: Does it pay to let chips fall where they may? (interview with North Carolina State University's forestry department head Fred Cubbage)(Interview)
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- Business North Carolina
- Article date:
- August 1, 1998
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Fred Cubbage, who holds a doctorate in forest economics, heads the forestry department at N.C. State. Dan Richter has a doctorate in soil science and ecology from Duke, where he is a professor. They're studying the economic and environmental impacts of stand-alone wood-chip mills in North Carolina.
BNC: What's all the fuss about?
Cubbage: It's that chip mills lead to clear-cutting. The thesis behind that is that timber companies are putting in a mill and clearing a 75-mile radius around it. Some of the controversy, too, is the traditional environmental opposition to timber harvesting in general and clear-cutting in particular. That's been a theme since the ...