[Grampa Dave]

So will Congress start to reverse the rulings set up by the Clintoonians to make all of our forest Druid Cathedrals with no logging, no roads and no thinning of brush.

Or will the envirals win again with the power of the Mediots who serve the Watermelons of America?

[Grampa Dave]

Those non important/minor and old news fires may have some impact with congress.

[Grampa Dave]

"Both sides (environmentalists and the timber industry) have ample clout to block any legislative effort," Kardon said. "If they want another decade of gridlock, forest destruction, erosion and habitat degradation, that will be their choice."

[Siegfried]

The measure may offer the last chance to save old growth west of the Cascades, he said, because the Bush administration has pledged to accelerate logging to meet original projections of the Northwest Forest Plan.

Notice that the enviro-mafia got their wish with the Northwest Forest plan, but they couldn't even let that be. Right after it was passed they began filing court cases to prevent even the tiny remaining amount of logging that would have been permitted under the plan.

[madfly]

PING

[BOBTHENAILER]

. Such projects would then be exempt from citizen appeals that can slow logging. Court cases would have to be decided with a presumption "in favor of" the logging projects

I really like the sound of this, although I'm leary of giving up the west side.

said Jasmine Minbashian, coordinator of the Northwest Old Growth Campaign.

She and Kieran Suckling (from the ranch thread) should have a contest for weirdest eco-freak name. Where in the world do these pukes come from. Its similar to all the radical Islamic dudes, they all have one eye, no eyes or some other deformity.