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Politics : The Environmentalist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Elmer Flugum who wrote (2744)	10/9/2003 12:40:39 PM
From: d[-_-]b	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 36918

len, re:"public" has turned out to be tax-subsidized land and forest for mining and exploartion interests now. We don't get much mining out west, but we do have some rather large tree farms. I believe we need to protect old growth but also believe we need forest products. I think we have enough tree farms today, I would be against expanding those lands and perhaps lean to reducing them if we could curb our world wide appetite for lumber and paper. Unfortunately, I only see the demand increasing as other nations modernize. I am very much against the gating of public lands that are managed by tree farm companies. I can understand Clintons gate policy for non-tree farm lands. I want to be able to drive through the "corn field" and see what they're doing, as well as hunt - they are supposed to be "public" lands.