Assignment:
Afforestation (also referred to as silviculture) is the land management practice of planting commercially-valuable trees for later harvesting on land that has been previously cleared and converted for other use for a period of time.
Take a Side
Do the benefits of silviculture outweigh the ecological and environmental costs?
Note: Answering this may be simplest if you take the perspective of a particular stakeholder; be that of a citizen, a local or state environment or natural resources representative, lumberjack, water management district engineer, conservation biologist, town commissioner, etc.