[HangnJudge]

I agree that forests have cycles
And some aspects of the Smokies problems
could be cyclic
but
The Ozone issues are not political,
they are a regional/industrial issue
and not one easily altered by any
political process, rather individuals
making individual decisions to decrease
pollution production. My personal preference is to change our energy reliance to nuclear sources and stop burning resources that are not renuable (coal/oil)

[Libertarianize the GOP]

ping

[Eric in the Ozarks]

I'm a coal and oil guy and I happen to agree with you. We cannot continue mining and burning 100 million tons of coal a year, which was the last statistic I saw...its probably more than that now.
If we had spent the moon shot money on solving nuclear power's safety and waste problems, we'd have electricity too cheap to meter and would have been into the second generation of electric cars.

[Rebelbase]

I see it too.

[Tennessee_Bob]

Check your freepmail.

[redangus]

As a regular visitor to the Park since the mid 70's, and an avid flyfisher, I agree with your assessment. The growth in the area especially the parking lots they call Pigeon Forge/Gatlinburg is scary and disturbing. I would also support the shutting down of coal and oil fired power plants in return for the opening a requisite number of Nuclear PP, but of course the envirowackos wouldnever support this.