Day Late Dollar Short [RE: [pct-l] Forest Service chief puts old-growth timber off-limits]

[Luke Mullen" <l.mullen@ieee.org (Luke Mullen)]

Too bad the Hypocritical Dishonest Clinton-Gore Administration ALREADY
SOLDOUT (see below for more details) on the forests to the big timber
companies. Why didn't the Hypocritical Dishonest Clinton-Gore do
something about old growth forests eight-years ago instead of now. The
phrase "a day late and a dollar short comes to mind" ... stand by for
the blizzard of fund raising letters from the sellout Sierra Club &
friends.

Nadir in 2004!!!

** Begin Details Supporting The Above **
"Gore and Clinton have done more harm to the environment than Reagan
and Bush combined"
- David Bower - former two-time Sierra Club President (aqua "The
Arch")
(copied from pg 246 of "Al Gore: A User's Manual" ISBN 1-85984-803-6)

"Within days of taking office, the Clinton-Gore team set its sights on
getting [federal judge - Reagan appointee] Dwyer's injunction lifted
and the big [old growth] logs rolling back to the sawmills. The scheme
was to become a template for the way Clinton-Gore would handle
environmental disputes for the remainder of their term: convene a
staged 'town hall' style meeting, put out a pre-fib plan and induce
your liberal [sierra club & co.] friends to SWALLOW THEIR PRINCIPLES
and sign off on it." (copied from pg 249 of "Al Gore: A User's Manual"
ISBN 1-85984-803-6)

" '[Clinton-Gore] told us that during the campaign [Clinton-Gore] MADE
COMMITMENTS TO THE TIMBER LOBBY and the Northwest delegation that
LOGGING WOULD BE RESTARTED before the end of 1993,' Larry Tuttle later
recalled [Tuttle formerly headed the Oregon Natural Resources
Council -
lead plaintiff in the original spotted owl suit]. " (copied from pg
249
of "Al Gore: A User's Manual" ISBN 1-85984-803-6)

"The Clinton emissaries wanted the plaintiffs in the spotted owl case
to go to Judge Dwyer and ask [the Judge] to RELEASE FOR CLEAR-CUTTING
some of
the sales [the Judge] had halted." (copied from pg 250 of "Al Gore: A
User's
Manual" ISBN 1-85984-803-6)

"For the greens who'd folded, the pay-off was scarcely worth it. The
plan DIDN'T STOP LOGGING OF ANCIENT FORESTS. In fact more than 35
percent of the remaining spotted owl habitat was put into the
free-fire
zone called 'the matrix', where logging could go forward. But even the
remaining 65 percent of the old-growth forest was not safe. Although
the plan sequestered these lands in a category called Old Growth
Reserves, such zones were not, in fact, off limits to logging. The
plan's fine print allowed these lands to be, in Babbitt's
unforgettable
phrase, 'CUT FOR THEIR OWN GOOD.' Ecological logging - considered a
joke during the Bush era - came into its own with a vengeance during
the Clinton-Gore time" (copied from pg 250-251 of "Al Gore: A User's
Manual" ISBN 1-85984-803-6)