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To: marcos who wrote (171447)	8/14/2001 11:36:36 PM
From: Gordon A. Langston	Respond to of 769667

Sorry, no FO's here. Bait your hook again and cast away. We just hate children, minorities, clean water, clean air, homosexuals, the poor and the government. We love old trees and Canadian beer.

To: marcos who wrote (171447)	8/15/2001 2:45:47 AM
From: American Spirit	Respond to of 769667

If you're a logger I recognize it's a sensitive issue. I once went to Washington State to find great forests. I was shocked to find entire mountains shaved bald. Ever since then I have never trusted the timber industry, and have never bought a single piece of wood besides some plywood for my floor foundation and some molding. We could all do without so much wood. let it live instead. We have taken too much too fast and sorry timber industry employees but your industry can no longer be afforded except as a specialty business. Blame our fore-fathers mostly. They wasted entire forests by the thousands. Though I love fish I'm afraid the same is true there as we have over-fished the planet disasterously. we all share the blame. And it is a sad shame. But the reality is it must slow down or it will be almost all gone. I am not happy to be saying this. But the sound of chainsaws now makes me cringe with sadness. And hearing about high-tech mass fishing, hunting tuna with aerial surveillance and radar and dredging (cleaning out the ocean's floor and killing everything) makes me ashamed to be enjoying eating seafood, so I limit myself to special seafood treats now unless I'm in Costa Rica or someplace where stocks are still rich (for now anyway). We're simply killing them too fast for them to reproduce. The end result is obvious. Trees and fish and wildlife needing a healthy eco-system to survive. All precious. People and times must change though many change unwillingly and even do things like kill spotted owls and eagles in protest. People matter too but people can change. The creatures and trees cannot.