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To: Dwight E. Karlsen who wrote (10008)	10/18/1998 5:30:00 AM
From: Daniel Schuh	Respond to of 67261

Dwight, you're a bit selective in your response. I'll admit "most" is an imprecise term, I don't what the actual production numbers are. But, you would have us believe that the Salvage Rider had something to do with a lumber shortage. siliconinvestor.com (me) Why were there quotas requiring the Forest service to make a certain number of board feet of "salvage" lumber available to the clearcutters? Why was there any clearcutting involved at all? (Dwight) Perhaps because lumber is the material of choice for building homes. Do YOU live in a wood-frame home, Daniel? Do you use paper for printing on, at work, and perhaps at home too? And what do YOU use for bath tissue? Are you a forest products consumer? If not, then your righteous wrath is noted. If so, your hypocrisy is noted. Nice answer to the question. The reason clearcutting is involved, of course, is that that's the cheapest and quickest way to cut timber. Not the most productive way, it's pretty wasteful. But other methods are more labor intensive, and when you're out to "save jobs" (another Slade Gorton thing, ha ha ha), you got to go with the cheapest, most environmentally destructive method possible. All in the interests of "Forest Health Preservation", and "saving disease-infested forests". That's just my OPINION, though. I'm sure you'll be happy to supply us with more FACTS about the situation, like in your post quoted above.