James "Jim" Joseph Pojar (born January 12, 1948, in Ramsey, Minnesota)[1] Is an American-Canadian field botanist, forester, and ecologist.
The two primary goals for protection were to promote scientific research and to have natural benchmarks for evaluating land management and human use in other areas.
[10] Pojar is the author or co-author of many scientific articles and reports, as well as several books, including field guides for plants to be identified by amateur botanists.
Jim Polar's book Plants of Coastal British Columbia, including Washington, Oregon & Alaska, co-authored by Andy McKinnon and Paul B. Alaback, sold 250,000 copies as of the year 2013.
[10] According to Jim Pojar, commercial logging of primary old-growth forests and replacing them with managed tree plantations can cause a 40 to 50 percent reduction in carbon sequestration.