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To: tyc:> who wrote (35543)	3/11/2007 4:11:29 PM
From: marcos	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 78418

No bug-kill on the island no, there isn't that species of pine there ... and it's far too far to truck bug-kill chips from the interior to the coast unless they're pulp-quality, never gonna happen for fuel, it would make more sense to burn them in the interior and ship the power through transmission lines, which will likely happen if it isn't already [lots of co-gen going on in the forest industry] What there is on the west coast is a massive amount of decadent crappy timber ... you get a little high-value sawlog out of an acre, and upwards of ninety per cent of the biomass is left to rot where it interferes with re-gen ... the project would be economically viable if run right, imho, and it would improve the economics of forestry as well, but you'll be up against the woodsman-spare-that-rotten-snag crowd ... of which i am a member, fwiw, to quite a degree, there have to be areas we just absolutely leave alone for future generations ... but a lot of land could reasonably be working forest imho, not everyone agrees, and especially over which acre should be which ... so, permitting will take forever It may not be too late to change the plan a little - turn that old pulp mill into a thorium nuke plant instead -g-