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LETTERS, Page 10Among the Ancient Trees
I appreciated your coverage of the battle over logging of
old-growth forests (ENVIRONMENT, Aug. 28), particularly your
recognition that the protesters' practice of driving metal spikes
into trees is intended to disable machinery, not injure loggers.
Worry over jobs in the timber industry is misdirected. My
understanding is that more logging positions have been lost to
management policies of overmechanization than to conservation
measures. The answer to the loggers' economic woes does not lie in
cutting down more trees. Extinction of old-growth forests will end
a logger's livelihood more surely than the acts of any wild-eyed
preservationist.
Alan Spheros Brown
Saint Johnsbury, Vt.
You have shown a hypocritical bias about forest products in
the U.S. Your weekly magazine has a large circulation and is
printed on paper made from wood. You have a photograph of a logging
protester standing on a plywood platform among the treetops;
plywood is made from large trees. Your homes have wooden trusses,
studs, flooring and possibly siding. America's timber is renewable,
and forest management allows multiple use without reduction of
wooded acreage.
Stephen R. Moore
Huntsville, Texas