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Politics : Impeach George W. Bush
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To: American Spirit who wrote (5902)8/13/2001 12:15:51 AM
From: ManyMoose  Read Replies (1) of 93284
 
I take it you don't live in a clearcut, then. That's the difference between us. I see a clearcut as a way to start growing new trees. You see it as disaster. Unless you build your house in it, you're wrong.

I'm going to recommend a book for you -- no two. The first may still be in print since it just came out last year. "The Lochsa Story -- Land Ethics in the Bitterroot Mountains" by Bud Moore. Bud never writes about land that he doesn't know personally and intimately. I can tell you for a fact that NOBODY knows the Lochsa better than Bud Moore. In that book he says some things that I don't necessarily agree with, but you can bet your hard earned dollar I respect what he says. You see, Bud taught his son Bill and me woodsmanship, hunting, and trapping. He is a genuine legend. (If you read "A River Runs Through It" look closely at the credits and you'll see Bud's name mentioned in high regard.) You may also have seen him on TV in a documentary called "The Bear Wars."

If Bud tells me something, I know it's true. If all environmentalists followed his model I would be unable to resist.

The second book is called "People of the Tongass" written by two women whose names escape me and my books are packed in storage until I leave Alaska. It might be hard to get, but it's worth reading. It reveals all the falsehoods and trickery that environmentalists used to shut down forest management in Alaska.

I don't mind if the nation says, "Look, we value forests more without management and we are willing to do without the resources they provide." I get off when they say we can't manage forests because some "endangered" species will be harmed and I know where a bunch of that species thrives in the middle of a clearcut I replanted 15 years ago.

You really should look into the law of unintended consequences. It will be devastating to your cause.
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