Posted on 08/09/2006 12:11:26 PM PDT by ApplegateRanch
KERBY — A 40-foot log used by protesters to block access to the Mike's Gulch timber salvage sale in a roadless area of the Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest Tuesday morning was cut from a nearby botanical area, according to forest officials.
One irate activist called it a "petty" point, and said the U.S. Forest Service and John West, president of the firm that purchased the roadless sale, had cut countless trees illegally [snip] Illinois Valley resident Annette Rasch, a longtime environmental activist who was at the protest, discounted the issue. She said she did not know where the log came from.
"But this is a bit of the pot calling the kettle black to say we may have damaged some 9-inch-wide tree," she said Tuesday evening.
She noted that West's firm had illegally cut trees on more than a dozen acres near Babyfoot Lake on the edge of the Kalmiopsis Wilderness Area as well as hazard trees as part of earlier Biscuit fire salvage logging in 2004.
"If that's all they can come up with against the validity of our case, boy, what a lot of nerve," she said. "For them to make a big deal for the use of one small green tree ... that really makes me mad.
(Excerpt) Read more at mailtribune.com ...
Note that she also lies by calling it a "9 inch tree", so as to minimize it to the press, but it was in fact, a 12" tree, producing a 40 foot log.
Oh this is too hilarious!
Oops, thought it said illegal Blogging!
On another note: I noticed that Costco is selling Algore's new book. It was, of course, printed on DEAD TREES.
Laws for thee, but not for me.
Laws for thee, but not for me.
Single posts for thee, but duplicates for me.
Single posts for thee, but duplicates for me.
I produced a 40 foot log once after all you can eat night at Pizza Hut.
Go Taco Bell and you will only get gaseous waste
But I digress. Was there corn?
No, but in an amazing coincidence, I also blocked a road.
ROTFLOL!
Oh the irony
Here in Colorado, the enviros got logging in national forests banned. Before that, loggers would go in and take out wood infested with pine beetles. Now the pine beetles' populations have exploded, and now people with only a half-acre or two are faced with thousands of dollars in beetlekill-removal fees.
About 15-20 years ago, we got 22,000 salable BF of beetle damaged & conk-rotted timber off of just 5 over-grown acres, leaving the healthy trees. Once the slash was gone, it looked good...but it still was criticized later by several potential buyers 'wanting a home in the forest' as having TOO MANY trees!
Had we not logged when we did, we would have been stuck, because soon after, the whackos got the logging rules changed, so that almost all of our "Woodland Resource" land became "Riparian Zone", due to the intermittent creek that went down the middle of it.
Our "environmentalist" neighbor did not log. She ended up with well over 100 dead sticks 60-125' tall, that now could not be cut on her 5 acres.
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