🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <N9qy7B2w165w@ham.almanac.bc.ca> emd@ham.almanac.bc.ca writes:

>Just because you've already cut down all the forests in PEI doesn't mean
>that we have

>What's inappropriate is the misleading and inaccurate propaganda that all
the old growth forests are gone except Clayoquot.

OK, I'll bite. Virtually every report I've seen regarding this issue
describes Clayoquot and surroundings as the _last_ area where the ancient
forests haven't been disrupted. If this isn't correct, then please tell me
where else in my home province of British Columbia can old growth forest be
found in it's original state, and which is not on the "cutting block".

BTW, you are absolutely right about what has happened in PEI. And it is
precisely this that I hope can be avoided in BC. It's at the point now
where PEI woodlot land, for which the feds have pumped in untold money for
"forestry management", is going to be cleared to grow blueberries. Why?
Simple economic pressure. Jobs will be provided in blueberry production.
Those who oppose it are called environmental extremeists, and accused of
depriving others of employment.

Sound familiar? It should. People on the two coasts aren't all that much
different. I remain unconvinced that, in the long haul, Clayoquot sound
isn't going to end up as a west coast "blueberry patch".

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*  Larry Hale                                             *
*    Biology Dept., Univ. of Prince Edward Island         *
*    Charlottetown, P.E.I., Canada                        *
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*  The opinions expressed are not those of UPEI, sadly.   *
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