Forest Succession refers to the order of life to move toward forests, away from deserts. The importance of this is in being able to appreciate the awesome incredibility of a forest ecosystem. The forest is the model, the stable system. It means that removing a forest is destructive, and planting a forest or moving toward a forest is productive, just in case you are hoodwinked by Raney, who tells the world that Mountain top Removal and deforestation of Appalachia is the best thing that could happen for the environment because they can get the coal cheaper and using clean coal technology and coal to gas liquidification, free the US from foreign oil at the small price of our forests and mountains- it's a bum deal. a real cave man step back into shorsightedness, ignorance and ultimtely leading to desertification, water crisis, starvation, death, global warming is just a by product.