Everybody uses paper. Why are we waiting for trees to grow only to cut them down to produce paper? It takes an incredible amount of time for a tree to grow, whereas other plants grow faster, why not use those plants
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There are almost 200 million acres of pulp wood forests in the US. You can drive interstates for hours in the south and hardly ever leave pine forests.
While ecologists aren’t happy with the low diversity of plant life that comes from commercial tree farms, they are still native trees that provide homes for all sorts of animals. Some animals thrive in mature forest land, some need to live among seedlings. Florida’s Scrub Jay needs 25+ acre tracts of mostly cleared pine & oak land to live. So it does great in forests that are cut for timber or pulp.
Even if bamboo would be better for pulp production, it would be an environmental disaster to replace all those pines since American animals aren’t Pandas.
I’m a small scale pine tree farmer. My land has bears, endangered turtles and snakes, endangered fox squirrels, gators, and lots of other critters. I’m USDA and state certified tree farm which requires that I operate a plan to continually improve water quality and habitat. So the land provides more benefits than just paper.
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