[pct-l] forest service lands for sale

[ryan_christensen at sbcglobal.net (Ryan Christensen)]

--- Jeff Moorehead <jeffmoorehead1@cox.net> wrote:

> that was very informative and well put. It makes
> sense as well. Sad, but 
> true...
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> "And yet, though politically unpopular to speak of,
> this is money that use 
> to come from the logging industry. I not only live
> in an area where a sale 
> could effect my friends and I, also know how the
> loss of that revenue has 
> devastated many peoples careers, lives, and the
> schools that had been 
> receiving these funds for many, many years. Their
> loss due to cut back in 
> logging and buying most our lumber from foreign
> countries, is very 
> specifically a result of the agencies and folks who
> are now fighting this 
> sale.
> 
>   I don't want to start a flame war,but i cant let
> this stand, it is totally 
> untrue.
>   Let me start by saying ,I've spent a lot of time
> in your area and have 
> relatives in the area .my uncle was  in the logging
> industry ,and I've 
> discussed this with him at length,so i know what im
> talking about.
>   The "environmentalists have destroyed logging" is
> a myth, a lie, 
> perpetuated by the logging industry so they dont
> have to tell the truth or 
> take personal responsibility for their actions.What
> to know where your jobs 
> went? start with mechanization. The feller/buncher
> has cost more logging 
> jobs than all the environmentalists put together.
> Want to know where all the 
> mill jobs went? take a day trip to eureka or coos
> bay,watch as they load 
> logs and jobs onto ships to countries where they pay
> less then a dollar an 
> hour.
>   The plain truth is in this day and age, single
> industry towns are becoming 
> obselete,corperate consolidation is killing towns
> right and left,from 
> midwest farm communities to northwest logging towns
> and the people that are 
> suffering most are the biggest supporters of these
> policies.
>   even if we upped cutting on public lands,the
> benefit to your community 
> would be negligible .mill jobs are never coming
> back,and with less manpower 
> needed for harvesting, job creation would be small.
>   So why is big timber pushing  for more ? follow
> the money. in all the 
> years that the forest service has been in charge of
> public lands they have 
> only shown a profit twice(once in the 50s,and once
> in the 80s)the more they 
> cut, the more they can sell overseas with, the
> profit going to corporate 
> headquarters(probably based in the tax haven of the
> Bahamas)your town gets 
> nothing, and as a bonus, the cut over land stops
> being a diverse forest, and 
> turns into a federally subsidised tree farm.
> 
>   As for this being a school issue.let me put it
> this way, if anyone out 
> there believes this is really about schools,please
> get in touch with me  i 
> have some oil money i need to move out of Nigeria.
>   This has nothing to do with school funding ,its a
> smokescreen, a political 
> ploy,a land mine  for the midterm elections. cant
> you just see the 
> commercials:
>   NOT ONLY DOES SENATOR SMITH HATE AMERICA,HE HATES
> SCHOOL CHILDREN,HE VOTED 
> AGAINST FUNDING RURAL SCHOOLS.
> 
>   Please dont take this as a personal attack,im
> trying to help, you've been 
> duped ,dont take my word for it,check it out for
> yourself and then spread 
> the word .
> 
> 
> 
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