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To: LindyBill who wrote (450054)	10/10/2011 12:59:27 PM
From: FJB	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793887

RE:National Geo is run by Leftists. They are the only lefty organization I like. Still take cool pictures and make some good movies. movies.nationalgeographic.com

To: LindyBill who wrote (450054)	10/10/2011 5:21:03 PM
From: ManyMoose	5 Recommendations Respond to of 793887

I've always thought NG was too leftist for its own good. I quit subscribing a long time ago. One day my boss said we were going to go out in the woods with a NG photographer for an upcoming article on forest management. We made the trip and the fella took lots of photos. When the article came out it was entitled "Use and Abuse of Our National Forests." The only picture they used from that trip was one of ManyMoose standing with cupped hands in deep conversation with the Assistant Secretary of Agriculture, John Crowell (Reagan Administration). When the trip was over, Crowell asked me to drive him to his home in Tualitin or Lake Oswego (I forget which), and we had the opportunity to discuss forestry issues. The rest of the article consisted of photographs of bad clearcuts from elsewhere. Bad clearcuts are ones that fail to regenerate, do not meet other objectives such as wildlife habitat, or have erosion that is caused from poor road construction, not clearcutting. None of bad examples were from anywhere I worked. I inherited the bad examples I had and fixed them. When I saw the article I wrote to the magazine and complained that their article failed because it did not tell the whole story and showed no 'good' clearcuts in their set of photographs. Good clearcuts are the kind that look like a forest, because that is the objective of clearcutting--to regenerate old decrepit forests with new healthy ones. I wrote every prescription with the words "regeneration harvest using the clearcut method." They did not discuss the success stories that I showed them at all. They wrote back with their lame excuse was that they didn't have enough room to show everything. BS. Every once in a while I see an old copy of that magazine and I pick it up for my collection. It's still out there: amazon.com Sometimes FS people will remember the picture and ask if I'm that guy. Coincidentally, the same issue has a great article about avalanches, including some pictures of avalanche chutes that I could see from my office in Juneau.