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

To: the truth who wrote (241178)	3/23/2002 9:44:12 AM
From: MSI	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Any links on that, with facts/figures on both sides of the issue? I'm building some houses this year and next so am personally impacted by the price of lumber. Also - I was raised in a lumber town that declined as lumber became scarce from over-logging, and became more diverse economically over 30 years. Some of us worked the sawmill in high school, "setting chokers" in the woods, tree-topping and cat-skinning (some of you know what that is). My dad was the town doc & we knew all the timber barons. The emotion I have on this subject relates to a bastard from Texas using junk bonds to buy out a 130 yr-old family operation called Pacific Lumber to decimate the old-growth thousand-year-old redwoods. The family had spared those and kept sustained-yield of 5%/yr for over a century. Maxxim needed 16% to pay junk bonds to accomplish the theft, clearcutting areas that will no longer be productive for hundreds of years, and trees that will be gone for a thousand years, if then. Some loggers of the weak-minded sort ate up the propaganda that they'd have more jobs by over-cutting. They now know the truth: they've destroyed their jobs 5 years hence, and will be looking to grow pot or sit on the front porch and whittle and spit. In Alaska, timber has long been stolen by the Japanese -- there are a lot of such deals that don't get public political scrutiny.