in your "conservatives of ill repute", you slyly include Slade Gorton, citing his support for saving disease-infested forests. At least, that's my take on the "Salvage Rider", aka the Forest Health Preservation Act of '94. Daniel, are you aware that, due to mismanagement and near-sighted EarthFirst-style dogma, that forests in Oregon and Washington were, in some cases, simply allowed to become forests of "standing dead" trees, trees honeycombed from Pine Bark Beetles? So Gorton agrees that it would be okay to try to salvage some of the remaining trees in the worst areas, since in the worst areas the trees are doomed to die from investation anyway.
Yet you cite this policy as "Where, in Viet Nam style, we have to clearcut the forests in order to save them."
Hah! Caught you slipping in your OPINIONS in order to smear Senator Slade Gorton (R-WA) with the "conservatives of ill repute" label. |
