 And of course the wildlife habitat that goes along with it. Good forest management usually improves wildlife habitat for lots of different species. He believes development is one of the biggest threats to forests and it's important to keep forest lands as units rather than smaller parcels. Eventually more and more development just nibbles away at these large intact forests. It's very important for them to be large in landscape. It's like Humpty Dumpty. You can't put it back together again when it gets fragmented so much.