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Politics : View from the Center and Left -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: epicure who wrote (38826)	6/26/2007 2:54:18 PM
From: Steve Lokness	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 541805

So what would a better policy look like? Good question. I guess you could sense my frustration with the timber industry? The following comments are for public properties only. A better policy would be "the view from the center". Honest! A policy that most Americans could look at and say....."I like that and can live with that". It would be a logging practice not timber industry driven, but driven and with incentives designed for all forest uses. It would also be a policy that did not sell below cost timber - just to log the lands so that industry could maintain their stranglehold on NF management. It would be a policy whereby the timber industry would have to pay for roads to log the timber and would have to pay other prices of timber extraction - brush removal, replanting etc. In the past it was you and I as taxpayer who paid. It would be a policy that would not destroy salmon runs and elk herds, but instead harvested in ways that perhaps even benefited other resources. That can be done - it hasn't in the past. These lands belong to the American people - they were treated as timber industry playgrounds to be exploited with a continual and not small subsidy from the Federal Government. Your pictures don't even begin to give a sense of the destruction on the Olympic Peninsula. ......By the way. even the timber company with the right to log these lands without a competitive bid, walked away from them. The FS couldn't figure it out. The public did. Not people on the fringe - but normal American people .........from the center. steve