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

To: D_I_R_T who wrote (5966)	3/1/2006 9:29:08 PM
From: Crocodile	Respond to of 36917

I can't help but believe that if the present administration succeeds with this first round there will be much larger sales attempted in the future. I would expect so. Once it gets started, they'll be using any feeble excuse to sell more land at fire sale prices. In my estimation fracturing of the land base in the Tongass and other National Forests is the biggest threat to the environment of these areas. Yes, it's interesting how these people are running retro to what is now known about wildlife conservation -- that contiguous areas are important for survival of many species that must range over a territory and risk being killed on roads, or can't move through developed areas. If there's any kind of habitat failure in an area (fire, drought, etc....) the wildlife in those areas may be exterminated if they can't migrate along corridors. At a time when, up here, there is an emphasis on trying to improve corridors by adding lands, it seems like the U.S. is determined to go backwards. Resource use, done under proper protections, is an almost nonexistent issue comparatively. Well managed forests or other natural resource lands can be both economically productive and provide abundant habitat for wildlife. Up here, some of the largest parks have areas which are logged, but there's a process in place to decide which parcels will be logged in a given year. Obviously, some areas are not subject to logging if the activity would negatively impact a watershed. For the most part, the system seems to work relatively well. I hear very few complaints from lumber companies regarding lack of access to suitable resource lands.