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Pastimes : Where the GIT's are going -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: country bob who wrote (110626)	1/17/2006 6:47:49 PM
From: ManyMoose	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 225578

That isn't too far from the way it was within my recent memory, but environmentalists killed the goose that laid the golden egg , not realizing what they were doing. (Have you seen any slowdown in the rate of construction in this country? Wood is still getting cut somewhere, but it's not going for roads and schools in rural communities at anything like the historical rate.) Time was, any county road that carried National Forest logs got money for construction and maintenance. That is still probably true, but since there is little timber being cut nowadays, the counties have to cough up the dough themselves. Same thing for school funding. Timber receipts were channeled into school budgets, which was like free money because there were no kids out in the woods that were generating that money. I think that town in Minnesota that the kids lived in had its woods cut by Paul Bunyan before the National Forest system started managing lands for timber production. What didn't get sawn up into lumber was probably just burned. A huge amount of forest land was converted to grass in the 19th century just to feed the horses that people rode and used as draft animals. No receipts for that either.