04-27-2007, 09:00
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Mr. Harsey, this will interest you.
Years ago, here out west we used to have an Industry called: "The Timber Industry." Hundreds of thousands of rural people had good paying jobs in small communities, life and health insurance, etc. A good income for a very hard days work.
Well, along came the enviros, and their cause. The spotted owl.
Eventually through the courts, the eviros were able to close down much of the areas where timber was harvested. Because the Spotted Owl's numbers were decreasing, and that was due they said to habitat being destroyed by loggers and logging. So, people lost their livelihood forever, communities went belly up, and the timber industry is all but gone, out west.
Now it turns out, the Spotted Owl isn't threatend by loggers, but by another Owl, the Eastern something Owl. The Fish & Wildlife folks want to shoot these Owls, because there are too many of these eastern Owls.
The enviros were WRONG from the get go. Good going there.
http://www.redding.com/news/2007/apr...hers/#comments
Do you suppose an apology is on the way?
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04-27-2007, 09:12
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I have to say I f we had owl season in CA I would sign up! 
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04-27-2007, 09:49
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Ah the good old spotted owl. The eastern version of the tree hugger mascot is the red cockaded woodpecker. Now the enviro's are going onto industry land and looking for the birds, trying (in vain for the most part) to "derail the paper and timber industry". Apparently they want to follow the Sheryl Crow "one piece of TP" treatise...
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04-27-2007, 09:53
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Originally Posted by booker
Ah the good old spotted owl. The eastern version of the tree hugger mascot is the red cockaded woodpecker. Now the enviro's are going onto industry land and looking for the birds, trying (in vain for the most part) to "derail the paper and timber industry". Apparently they want to follow the Sheryl Crow "one piece of TP" treatise...
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Funny, since pulpwood is a renewable resource.
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04-27-2007, 10:01
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Funny, since pulpwood is a renewable resource.
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Many of the environmental crowd don't view it as being "renewable" because the stand rotation time may not be within a decade, thus making it too long for their small brains to comprehend  .
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04-27-2007, 10:08
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Originally Posted by booker
Many of the environmental crowd don't view it as being "renewable" because the stand rotation time may not be within a decade, thus making it too long for their small brains to comprehend . |
Eastern half of the US has been heavily logged for more than five hundred years.
Other than the loss of old slow-growth timber, I don't see any shortage of trees, and apparently, neither does the timber industry.
Large sections of forest are under timber company management, and rotate through the growth cycle routinely. Timber prices, especially pulpwood, are soft right now, indicating more than adequate supply.
The enviro-whackos do not know what they are ranting about. Just another Socialist, liberal, anti-American cause.
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