[pct-l] Re: forest service lands for sale

[forsm001 at csusm.edu (Siri Forsman-Sims)]

Ryan,

I have to agree with you! Both my grandfathers were employed in logging in
Washington State. (They even survived being choke setters.) In the 1930s
and 1940s they saw the writing on the wall - both economic and
environmental. They reinvented themselves (a continuous process) to
support their families in a changing world.

Why were they in logging you may ask? All my family comes from the "wilds"
of Swedish-speaking western Finland.  What else is a good Swede-Finn to do
when they get to the Pacific Northwest? :) My mother's father would be
brought to tears by views of clear cutting. It is from these two familes
that I learned to love hiking the wilderness.

Siri


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> The truth is the not only are the jobs being sent
> overseas, but also the rate companies were harvesting
> timber was unsustainable. Even if there were no
> environmental regulations there were going to be a
> huge down swing in the timber industry-- because they
> cut themselves out of harvestable wood.
>
> Ryan
>