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To: Oral Roberts who wrote (38808)	6/26/2007 12:10:12 PM
From: epicure	Respond to of 541759

Life long folks in any industry often have prejudices that make them unable to see problems in new ways. There is a mindset in most professions that captures you, and makes it impossible to think outside the box. I'm not saying that happened here, but deference to "authority" is not usually a good thing. Better to hash things out with real evidence- than to defer to someone's claim of experience. It's fair to question people who might be in the box. If it wasn't, we could not question our senators- they've been in government longer than we have, or our tax collectors, they know more about that than we do, or the police- why would they make mistakes? They've been in the business their whole lives. It's good to question and argue. I would assume that's why most people post on SI.

To: Oral Roberts who wrote (38808)	6/26/2007 12:11:04 PM
From: Steve Lokness	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541759

So you and Mary know more about forestry then a life long forester. Interesting. I would love to take your lifelong forester through a walk on some of the national forest lands on the Olympic Peninsula and let him try to defend it. No sane person - forester or not, can! The issue was never about forestry. It was about economics. Do you as a tax payer wish to pay - to subsidize with tax payer money - to make a corporation rich while at the same time destroying some of our greatest treasures? Yes treasures, like salmon runs and elk herds. It was subsidizing destruction. It was taking of the livelihoods alright - the livelihoods of all those who made their living in the woods - for corporate greed. Defend that practice if you wish - today we know better. steve