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To: sea_urchin who wrote (15154)	8/15/2002 12:12:25 PM
From: shadowman	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82520

Ronald Reagan on trees.... "Trees cause more pollution than automobiles do." Reagan '81 "A tree is a tree. How many more do you have to look at?" Reagan '66, opposing expansion of Redwood National Park "The American Petroleum Institute filed suit against the EPA [and] charged that the agency was suppressing a scientific study for fear it might be misinterpreted... The suppressed study reveals that 80 percent of air pollution comes not from chimneys and auto exhaust pipes, but from plants and trees." Presidential candidate Ronald Reagan, in 1979. There is no scientific data to support this assertion

To: sea_urchin who wrote (15154)	8/16/2002 4:14:43 PM
From: long-gone	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82520

<<plant a tree for every one cut Be a heck of a job in the tropical forests of Brazil and Malaysia etc where they have been cutting down forests like there's no tomorrow. >> but there are forests in the US created by white man & expansion of forests in the south east through eastern Tx.

To: sea_urchin who wrote (15154)	8/16/2002 11:06:17 PM
From: Alan Whirlwind	Respond to of 82520

Searle, I happen to agree with your post. While in Guatemala in 1992, I flew over the northern rain forest in a missionary's plane and there were brown patches below where say 40 acres of woods had been cut to leave dry in the sun before burning. Other patches were too smokey to see. The previous year I flew over colombian rain forest and saw a similar sight. Trees aren't even being used. To be fair, the Colombian rain forest is enormous. Guatemala's is smaller in comparison, but laws have been passed declaring most of it off limits to cutting. More trees were probably being hacked down illegally by Mexicans coming down from the north than by Guatemalans. I would also point out that Guatemala had been undergoing an extensive program of reforestation in other parts of the country. I personally saw a huge stand of pines growing in the western mountains and new seedlings were being introduced monthly. Not everybody is chainsaw happy. In my opinion reforestation is going on everywhere in the US except the far west where logging and fires are destroying timber faster than it can grow. Trees like to grow anyway. They said Mount St. Helens would remain barren for decades but it is already considerably reforested. Of course the trees are only 20 years old.