Leave Bigfoot alone!! ..We did for the spotted-owl!
So many trees, so few tree huggers. This will cause difficulties for them.
This one better get it right on the details. God made forests for the enjoyment of urban hikers and vacationers. If the cutting is not done right, it can result in soil erosion. I am not signing on to this one without seeing the beef.
YES!
I was following a logging truck one time that had a bumper sticker that had "Earth First" and some smaller lettering below it. I finally got close enough to see the second line: "We'll log the rest of the planets later"
Bump
Maybe we"ll get some healthy forests out of this that won't burn to a cinder if struck by lightening.
The George Washington National Forest hasn't been logged since the 1920's. About time.
Yabba dabba du!!!!! Timberrrrrrrrrrrr!!!!!!!
This is good news! First, trees are a renewable resource. Second, most of these areas are so remote that even the tree huggers can't get to them. Third, there would still be over a million acres of "protected land" (aka unproductive fireboxes) left sitting there. That's a lot of land. To put that in perspective: every man, woman, and child in America could claim a 1/2 acre lot of "protected land" for themselves and there'd still be land to spare.
Hold on a minute everyone . . .
I've been reading a couple articles about this. What it appears is happening is that the Bush Administration is simply leaving the control of the use of these national forests up to the states in which they are located. This could potentially lead to an opening of these forests to industry, but it is really all up to the states.
"In Virginia, 394,000 acres are affected in the Jefferson and George Washington national forests."
BAD decision. This is not an area that bursts into flame like the West. We don't have large amounts of pristine forest left in Virginia.
This stinks.
Cutting trees (with replanting) is the best thing we can do for atmospheric carbon loads. If they actually knew anything, environmentalist would be the ones leading the pack for increased logging.
BTW, a single 10' stick of 4X4 cedar was nearly $25.00 at the Home Depot yesterday. More cutting is what is sorely needed all through the national forests.
What I don't understand is why don't environmental groups just buy up forests, or compete with the loggers price-wise on usage fees?
Outstanding!
About time.
Though Oregon's pathetic excuse of a Governor is protesting this hand over foot. What Ted? Afraid we will find out just how badly the "Public" lands have been mis-managed? We ALREADY KNOW Ted. All the forest fires and more than half Oregon's polution (particulate) comes from the mis-management of Oregon's "Public" forests!!! Wanna decrease the worlds emissions like you said you did with your stupid Emmissions executive (threatened) Orders? Then let someone manage the forests that can actually MANAGE THEM! Like perhaps the PRIVATE timber Owners? You know the ones, that have no fires on em and or are put out right away, the ones that CLEAR kindling underbrush and DEAD TREES that CAUSE fires? Hmmn Mr. Oregon Governor? How 'bout backing the President eh? He happens to be RIGHT! duh! *under breath* bloody kool-aid drinking FOOL liberal idiot Governor...!
A little off-topic, but I thought we bought Alaska so we could keep a closer watch on the U.S.S.R., at the time.