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- From: snodgras@lclark.edu (Bil Snodgrass)
- Newsgroups: alt.rush-limbaugh
- Subject: Re: Spotted Owl/Re:The Environment
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.145454.8082@lclark.edu>
- Date: 23 Nov 92 14:54:54 GMT
- References: <kf4CMf_00UhBE1OPhI@andrew.cmu.edu>
- Organization: Lewis & Clark College, Portland OR
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- I lived in several logging communities back in the 60's and 70's.
- Back then the loggers knew there would be an end one day to logging.
- And there will be one one day soon. Here in the Northwest if all
- the eligable forest lands are logged off there will be a 30 wait
- until the new growth is mature enough to be harvested. This has
- been a known fact.
-
- Also, timber is a very beautiful resorce. What the hell are we doing
- sending it out to other countries? I would like to keep it all here
- in the states. We don't have enough to share....We have a large
- enough market to sale it here only.
-
- Plus why are the logging companies sending the logs out of the country
- to be processed? The logging companies themselves are sending jobs
- out of this country.
-
- I don't want to take sides. I want to solve this problem so we can
- maintain our forests for recreational and logging use...It can be done.
-
- It is time that the forest stop being raped. Several weeks ago a person
- showed me an aireal of the forest around Mt. Hood. The forest ten years
- ago use to be lush and gourgeous. Now it is like a patch quilt for miles
- and miles.
-
- And funny thing is is that now that the enviromentalist have come
- out so forcfully the logging industry all of a sudden is
- introducing this new procedure in logging called selective
- harvesting. Something that many of us have wanted and called
- for for decades.
-
- Bil Snodgrass III
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