My Local Pro-Logging Dems, AGH!

[sandnsea]

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First I laugh... the south coast looks like a brush hog went through it and I am not exaggerating. There's no tree-lined coast except for a few state and federal campgrounds that have never been touched. In some spots, they have taken to logging straight down to the road, not even leaving the phony scenic buffer to drive through.

"decades of regulation have turned the tree-lined coast into an albatross."

They keep talking about logging to pay for schools here, and I keep asking "Log What??". Plus, the annual budget of any district is a couple million, logging revenue only brings in a couple hundred thousand. It's not enough to solve any of our problems.

But here's what our longtime, long long long time, Dem State Senator says, about federal regulations. You thought "Healthy Forests" was a logging boom, apparently not good enough! So Frustrating!

"If you look at those assets, you wonder why in the world we are not absolutely prosperous," Verger said. 'Yet we have to fight every day, every week, every month to have our voice heard about how to build our economy."

Read more: http://theworldlink.com/news/local/fores...z1w2ZPdVwf
http://theworldlink.com/news/local/fores...d7c52.html

[Willinois]

It's like most any extracting industry. A lot of wealth goes out with the resource. Very little of that wealth stays in the community. That's not hard to figure out but industries always have their crony politicians in place.

[sandnsea]

(05-27-2012 12:43 AM)Willinois Wrote:  It's like most any extracting industry. A lot of wealth goes out with the resource. Very little of that wealth stays in the community. That's not hard to figure out but industries always have their crony politicians in place.

ALL Oregon politicians want more logging. They'll dress it up in a million different suits and slogans, but in the end it's all more logging and getting into the old growth any way they can. They even have people convinced that "sustainable" logging means clear-cutting on the coast because big trees here get sand in them and aren't good for anything. Really?? Then why'd they cut them all down in the first place? So that we can have soft toilet paper and build pallets to ship to China so we can import shit. American Values. *sigh*

[Born_A_Truman]

I'll never forget the first time I saw clear-cutting on a trip Paul and I took to WA to visit Heather when she lived up there. It made me sick at my stomach.

[KonaKane]

Nasty shit, that is. When I first visited the Czech Republic, shortly after the fall of communism there, I drove through large portions of the Czech forest that have been clear cut/surfaced mined to death. It was just hideous...