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- From: David.Rahfeldt@p0.f23.n105.z1.fidonet.org (David Rahfeldt)
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- Newsgroups: k12.ed.science
- Subject: Re: logging
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- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 92 22:57:15 PDT
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- I think it is a little premature as a judgement to say that jimply
- because a species has been found in more than one location, that it
- is not endangered!
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- Population biology of a given species is complex and can NOT be reduced
- to such simple measures as "it is found other places".
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- The spottedowl is indeed endangered from all the data that I have
- seen.
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- Let's hope together that someday it is not so endangered and that
- logging can go back into production ...
-
- However... the spotted owl is mearly the crack in the veneer of the
- more MAJOR philosophical issue of whether we are here to get what
- we want out of the environment for this generation at maximal profit
- and ease or whether we are here with a responsibility to future
- generations ... are we simply users or stewards?
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- This is a basic issue around which all other issues rotate.
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- I think we all build and use wood wastefully as it is too available
- and too cheap... we pay only the cutting costs...etc...
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- I want my grandchildren 20 or 1200 generations into the future to
- read my writings and understand the joy of the natural scenes I
- describe...for they too have access to see and feel the same nature
- we do.... that is the goal for me...
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- do you want your grandchildren to only see muddy fields of little
- trees?
-
- David Rahfeldt
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