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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: DOUG H who wrote (195272)	10/24/2001 8:26:22 AM
From: George Coyne	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Gore's acceptance speech was the final straw for me. You mean for the nomination? Is it worth reading for the insight?

To: DOUG H who wrote (195272)	10/24/2001 7:36:37 PM
From: ManyMoose	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Thank you, but don't feel too sorry for me. I am the luckiest man in the world. The trees I caused to be planted are still there growing. They have a different mission now. Up to a point, they can revert to the mission I laid out for them. There's one thing about forestry that nobody seems to appreciate: It takes longer to make things happen than you might realize. For example, if the day before Bill Clinton was elected the first time I identified a stand of trees that was going in failing health and prescribed harvest for it, George Bush would be president before all the barriers and hurdles to actually harvesting that stand of trees were surmounted. If that stand of trees was actually harvested and made into boards, plywood, pulp, and other products for your use, George Bush would be on his second term before I completed all the steps needed to reforest the area. I will be dead before that new stand of trees has any merchantable product in it again. My grandchildren may well be dead before we get it back to the state that Bill Clinton started with. It takes a long time. Forestry is an activity that you don't just start and stop every time you change politicians. You either commit to it for centuries, or you import the raw materials from someplace where they don't practice forestry.