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Politics : Impeach George W. Bush -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: ManyMoose who wrote (5961)	8/14/2001 9:31:23 PM
From: American Spirit	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 93284

You said you prefer to replace forests not preserve them. That is the timber industry spin. But new forests are not real forests, they're just lines of leafy sticks like on a tree farm with zero eco-system flourishing around them. Do some reading on ecology if you don't already know about it. Everything you cut down or destroy destroys something else, etc. etc. Until the eco-system itself dies. There are ways of harvesting part of it and allowing the rest to heal, but the timber industry doesn't want to go to that trouble. Usually they just go through the destroy the whole thing. Drive to Yosemite sometime, then go visit Glen Canyon, the valley nextdoor. It was clar-cut more than 100 years ago and it's still in ruins. 100+ years and it hasn't come back. And some say it was once even more beautuiful than Yosemite.