Posted on 07/16/2009 4:31:57 PM PDT by Typical_Whitey
Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack gave his personal approval for a 381-acre clear-cut in America's largest stand of temperate rain forest. Not cool, President Obama. Not cool at all.
The Obama administration has approved the sale of timber from the Tongass National Forest in Alaska. The 17-million acre forest is the largest stand of continuous temperate rain forest in the U.S. and contains a lot of old-growth trees. It's basically a snapshot of what the world looked like before we rolled heavy onto the scene.
The U.S. Forest Service gave the green light for the sale after approval from Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack who stated in May that he would be the final gatekeeper on all decisions to sell timber from roadless ares of the national forests.
This first sale will come after seven miles of roads are built for the 381-acre clear-cut. This makes Hulk mad. Vilsack said that the main reason he approved the sale was to provide jobs to the area. Here's a radical idea -- those loggers should get new jobs not involving cutting down old-growth trees.
Jobs should not trump mountains, nor should they trump the last great stand of old-growth temperate rain forest left in this great nation of ours. Instead of spending the millions of dollars the federal government intends to pour into road construction to clear cut the area, how about giving the loggers job buyouts so they can find a new career with some scratch in their pockets?
You can donate money to the NRDC to help the fight to keep Tongass safe if you want to get active with your pocketbook.
Yes the hypocrisy... How many carbon credits is Obama wasting by cutting all these trees down and how can this be good for supposed “Global Warming”.
Where is Al Gore screaming that Obama is killing the Polar Bears by Chopping down thousands of trees that were there to suck out the CO2 that man so carelessly spewed into the atmosphere...
Maybe I am missing something is there some magic in the carbon credits?
17,000,000 acres less 381 = 16,999,639 acres.
And they have a problem with this?
They’re going to cut 381 acres in a 17 TRILLION acre forest. This is like ANWR: a postage stamp on a football field. Go nuts, DUmmies.
11. Call and email the White House 202-456-1111 Loggers need to be retrained, not cut down trees.
Nothing like a little "retraining" to make DUmmies happy.
Uh....The entire surface of the earth is about 129 billion acres. Stay focused.
Sorry. After six months of the Obozo’s destructive anti-American so-called “economics,” I didn’t think there was any number other than trillion.
So, he manages to pi** off both the right and the left at least once a day. Logging is good and necessary, it is another renewable resource and the f***tards of the left who want it totally banned are just idiots.
Maybe I am missing something is there some magic in the carbon credits?
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Nothing magic about “carbon credits” other than the fact they are part of a huge scam that continues to be swallowed by the ignorant, gullible, typically liberal masses. It is such radical hypocrisy the way these scam artists like Gore behave, and the dupes just keep buying into it — literally. After all, that is their goal.
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