Is paper really made on tree farms?

Question

This is what i thought all along. I thought that companies specifically grew their own trees to make paper on farms. A lot of my friends are in the belief that a lot of paper making companies just go out and chop down random trees to make paper. I thought this was ridiculous. What is the truth?

Answer 1

yea,

becuase when people shred tree's into thin layers they put it in a machine that turns it into different types of paper.

They have to use chemicals though

Answer 2

most of the paper in canada most likely comes from natural softwood forest. Most  are clear cut.

Answer 3

I'm a forester in Northern New York... I also have some experience in Maine. Much of the paper pulp (wood that will become paper), comes from natural forests, that have been harvested, and naturally regenerated, over and over for over for 200 years or more. Much of our paper is the result of taking out sick/dying trees to benefit the remaining trees, or from the branches and tops of higher quality lumber. All our paper and wood is certified as sustainable by the rainforest alliance.

Plantations, as mentioned above, are more popular in the south east, the west, and parts of norther Maine and Canada.

Answer 4

Both of you are right, but now-a-days most paper made in the USA is from tree farms.

In Georgia they'll cut down a natural forest for the wood fiber, and plant new trees on the same land and cut those down a few years later.

In Washington state, Waerhaeuser has tree farms all over.  You'll be driving along an all the sudden ALL of the trees will be a different height.  They even put up little signs with the years that the trees on a particular section of land were harvested, planted, harvested again...etc.