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

To: TigerPaw who wrote (5963)	8/14/2001 10:47:52 PM
From: American Spirit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93284

Exactly, Tigerpaw. And why are clear-cut forests still sitting barren like wastelands even 100 years later? A real tragedy and Bush-Cheney aim to deregulate timber cutting so that there will definitely be much-much more of this tragic loss. You can't see it from the road but you can from the air. Miles upon miles of clear-cut former wilderness sitting there for our lifetimes and our childrens lifetimes. Maybe longer. And the eco-haters have the nerve to attack the spotted owl and such, when that is the only legal way to stop clear cutting. Some of these guys think they're macho cutting down forests. I think they're greedy selfish wimps for having no moral backbone. On the other hand some timberman do care. They're just not the ones controlling things. Bush-Cheney mean to do away with the Species Extinction protections. To them it's an enemy of corporate profit, and those corporations are the ones giving them lots and lots of soft money.

To: TigerPaw who wrote (5963)	8/16/2001 12:51:40 AM
From: ManyMoose	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93284

You and American are probably unaware that it takes from 50 to 100 years to grow a forest for wood products. It takes real courage and foresight and those of us who dedicate our lives to it are not going to see our forests come into their own. But your children will, and they will bless us. See, your old growth forests have their benefits, but growing new wood is not one of them. New plantations grow wood four to five times as fast. Old growth forests are slowly going down hill, and sooner or later will rot more than they grow every year. Some day a windstorm or fire will come along and do what you refuse to acknowledge is a legitimate use of some forests. I've seen it happen many times, and it will happen more and more often now since you have been so successful. Letting the highest quality wood fall down and rot is OK some of the time, but unless you plan to live in a tent it is NOT OK all of the time.