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

To: D_I_R_T who wrote (4529)	3/1/2005 12:02:28 PM
From: Raymond Duray	Respond to of 36917

Michael, It's always a pleasure to chat with someone from Alaska. :) I lived in Juneau for four years and I have the fondest memories of the friends I made up there. What you say about the Tongass is somewhat sensible, when we consider that the prime logging area in the past was Prince of Wales Island where the road and ditch system would have been an issue. (I've never been to Craig, but I had some buddies who logged out of camps there.) However, travelling through the archipelago as I did on the ferry system, by private boat or by plane, I witnessed several places were logging had caused tremendous devastation as logging operations were allowed on various beachfronts. The typical pattern was that the easily retrieved buffer trees that could be highlined from the beach were removed. Then what would happen in subsequent winters is that williwaws would cause tremedous damage to standing timber that no longer was sufficiently buffered from the hurricane force winds pummelling the exposed timber. So, your concerns expressed to the Greenpeace folks were valid, but there is a lot more to the picture.