Timber in Durango

From: Round Earth Media
Series: Here Where We Live: Mexico and NAFTA
Length: 07:03

Community-owned forests in Mexico are tapping into the demand for eco-friendly wood -- at least for now. Read the full description.

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Playing: Timber in Durango
From: Round Earth Media

10001481 National debut Go to your local Home Depot, and there’s a chance that some of the lumber comes from Mexico. If so, it most likely came from a forest managed not by a giant timber company, but by a small, rural community. These communities own some 70 percent of all the forest land in Mexico. Now, some are hoping that eco-friendly consumers will help them survive in the cut-throat international timber market. Independent producers Mary Losure and Mary Stucky filed this report, one in a series of stories looking at the impact of free trade on the land and people of Mexico.

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National debut Go to your local Home Depot, and there’s a chance that some of the lumber comes from Mexico. If so, it most likely came from a forest managed not by a giant timber company, but by a small, rural community. These communities own some 70 percent of all the forest land in Mexico. Now, some are hoping that eco-friendly consumers will help them survive in the cut-throat international timber market. Independent producers Mary Losure and Mary Stucky filed this report, one in a series of stories looking at the impact of free trade on the land and people of Mexico.