So who bought the mill?
As do the private, tax-exempt "charitable" foundations of major corporate stockholders, many of whom are invested in (drum roll please) competing sources of timber from overseas.
The environmentalists will "rediscover" forest stewardship once the competition is dead and the market has consolidated in the hands of moneyed interests. The rest of us will pay through the nose, especially on the interests on the loans to purchase goods requiring large amounts of raw material at inflated prices, particularly homes.
There is an alternative. It starts with private property.
If the average Soccer Mom had to put up with the Mickey Mouse rules businesses are subjected to, there'd be a revolution in this country. The average person has no idea how onerous it is.
It's obvious that they are only after control and imposing their wills on everyone else and not protecting any environment.
>>But this urbanization of environmental values also signals the loss of a rural way of life...<<
As is intended per Agenda 21. We may thank our United nations, local, state and federal politicians for this warped sense of sustainability.
Just for the heck of it, call your local City Manager and ask if they know about Agenda 21. The response will be, "Yes, of course I do." Then ask why these words, "Agenda 21" are never mentioned at Public Meeting of the city officials.
Do they not want the locals to know that they are operating under a global plan? No, they do not!
It's such a shame that a great state like Montana has been infected with vermin from Mexifornia and other nearby rat producing states. The good people of the state were asleep at the switch. Come home Montana, come home.
There are hidden contradictions in the minds of people who "love Nature" while deploring the "artificialities" with which "Man has spoiled 'Nature.' " The obvious contradiction lies in their choice of words, which imply that Man and his artifacts are not part of "Nature", but beavers and their dams are. But the contradictions go deeper than this prima-facie absurdity. In declaring his love for a beaver dam (erected by beavers for beavers' purposes) and his hatred for dams erected by men (for the purposes of men) the "Naturist" reveals his hatred for his own race, i.e. his own self-hatred. In the case,of "Naturists" such self-hatred is understandable; they are such a sorry lot. But hatred is too strong an emotion to feel toward them; pity and contempt are the most they rate. As for me, willy-nilly I am a man, not a beaver, and H. sapiens is the only race I have or can have. Fortunately for me, I like being part of a race made up of men and women, it strikes me as a fine arrangement and perfectly "natural."
ROBERT HEINLEIN
Perhaps we need to consider a new phrase in the lexicon.
Enviromentalist Harvest........ roll it over, let it gently fall from you lips. A foul crop of weeds needs to be uprooted. The enviromentalist harvest will bring a better crop from the garden.
No. It just means things are being run by people far, far, away who have absolutely no f*cking idea what in the hell is going on out here.
I know this sounds crazy, but is it possible that plain old competition caused this mill to shut down? While there's expected to be a short-term lumber shortage due to hurricane reconstruction, I'm not aware that there's any expected long-term shortage. Weyerhaeuser alone has more than 39 million acres of managed forest worldwide (which makes for some pretty tough competition all by itself).