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- From: larry@b8.b8.ingr.com (Larry Billings)
- Subject: Re: PRES DEBATE
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.224420.26289@b8.b8.ingr.com>
- Organization: Intergraph
- References: <BxMvu0.GM8@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> <92318.104242SAUNDRSG@QUCDN.Que <1992Nov16.192032.11866@beaver.cs.washington.edu>
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 22:44:20 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov16.192032.11866@beaver.cs.washington.edu>, dbj@cs.washington.edu (Dave Johnson) writes:
- > In article <MARTINC.92Nov14160302@hatteras.cs.unc.edu> martinc@hatteras.cs.unc.edu (Charles R. Martin) writes:
- > >In article <92318.104242SAUNDRSG@QUCDN.QueensU.CA> SAUNDRSG@QUCDN.QueensU.CA (Graydon) writes:
- > >
- > >
- > >This is the costing model that is causing all the trouble in the
- > >Northwest US right now: what is the value of the western subspecies of a
- > >particular owl, compared to the economic loss to the region if timbering
- > >is made impossible to protect that species?
-
- Having been through the northwest US and seen some of the clear-cutting raping
- of the land I have to agree with keeping the timber cutters out until they
- learn some responsibility. Clear-cut areas look disgusting for years after
- the timber operations have finished and moved on. A tree should be planted
- for every one that is cut. My land is all young growth (due to a fire) but
- it ages as I age and will continue till my death. (barring another fire)
-
- >
- > Hmmm, I would say it is this sort of all-or-nothing rhetoric
- > that causes a lot of the trouble right now. There are only a
- > few extremists who are proposing making timbering impossible,
- > and even that is referring only to public lands. Just because
- > Dan Quayle said we could have owls OR jobs doesn't mean we have
- > to choose between them. Most of the environmentalists are asking
- > that SOME ancient forests be left uncut--unfortunately, at this
- > time there's only SOME left, so the environmentalists are in the
- > position of asking that most all of the remaining ancient forests
- > be left uncut.
- > --
-
- The thing that makes me mad about the "public lands" is the FACT that the
- overseers of the land will sell Old Growth trees to the timbermen for $1 US
- then build a road for the loggers to get to the timber, which cost more than
- they made from the selling of the trees, so we joe-blo taxpayers are paying
- the people to cut the trees which we supposedly own, while they make large
- profits striping the land.
-
- > Dave Johnson
- >
-
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