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

To: TigerPaw who wrote (341825)	1/11/2003 12:49:12 PM
From: ManyMoose	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

The timber industry pays the market price for federal timber, and anybody who can pay higher will get the timber. They bid against each other to get it. Some times they offer too much and are sorry for it later. Measures taken for scientific reasons are factored into the costs, and for many years they successfully resulted in both a viable timber industry and a sustainable supply. Now the overhead costs of measures made for politically correct purposes drive the base price up so high it is economically infeasible. The counties are paid big money in lieu of property taxes, and the timber has paid for a lot of improvements necessary to harvest it that benefit the counties long after the timber is cut. The school systems get dollars for the federal employees that work on national forest land. Commercial tree farms are good, and I know some wonderful ones. You would probably try to interfere with them as well if you could. Thanks to Clinton's policies, many private timber companies have revoked free public access privileges. They aren't restricted by the sensitive management policies I practiced in my job as a silviculturist, so when they make a clearcut you're lucky if you can see to the other side of it. Federal forest management takes the heat emanating from people who fly over in jets and can't tell who owns the land. Really Tiger you know so little about this issue you should stay out of it.