A unit of Lasting Forests Sustained forests; sustained profits evolving since March 30, 1999

Perhaps we need to manage the damage.

Injury is physical change or at least the perception of it. Examples: A beaver chews the base of an apple tree; a bat flies through a bakery, potentially contaminating the products there with hair, feces, or urine.

Damage is injury but with value attached. Whether the beaver caused the tree to produce fewer apples, whether it shortened its useful life, whether it destroyed its esthetic quality -- these determine whether the tree was damaged.

There are many ways to reduce or stabilize damage. Reducing an animal population is only one way.

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Last revision January 17, 2000.