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>>> Too extreme? Too extreme is what the industry is doing to the forest that
are left. One just have to see it from the air. <<<

I'd agree there... but from what I've read, this measure just doesn't make
sense.  And on top of that, only applying how it "looks" from the air... is
shallow view of the forest.

Look at what a forrest looks like after a fire, and it "looks" awful.  But we
also know the benefits of how fire can clean a forrest, and if allowed regular
burns... actually increases the health of forrests.

>>> But people will vote for the campaign with the most money and bigger signs.
<<<

Yeah, we'll see.  But I do get tired of everyone blaming everything on
such-an-such an "industry"... when those same folks support the
mega-corporations everyday.

Scott Stouder wrote an interesting article on this measure in the GT a week or
so ago.  I liked his summation, and how the measure will affect the private
land owner... especially the smaller land owners.

By making it harder or impossible for smaller land owners to harvest their
trees, we may end up with the same type of agricultural monoplies as we have in
many of our food products, were we have something like 90% of our food being
produced by two or three giant conglomerates.

And that will really do in diversity.

My uncle in Iowa got out of dairy, becuase he simply couldn't find a place to
sell his milk on his level.  There are many factors involved in his particular
situation...

But, if a landowner who only has 30 acres, has his hands tied by law that's not
flexible... their are other ways he can make his money, one as Scott suggested,
is from him to re-zone and develop, another is to sell it to a giant... who no
matter what you believe... will be able to manipulate the law, and still log
the same number of acreage... but their will be one less land-owner.

I'd take a private land owner, directly vested in their own land, over more
more acreage tied up by forrest industry giants... any day.

Andre

PS: My Uncle?  It was hard for him to just raise corn, as a smaller independant
farmer.  He was able to do it... but it's getting harder and harder for a 300
to 500 acre operation to make a living.