🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <5rj03v$2cr@hpmos.wv.mentorg.com>,
Walt Tucker <wtucker@wv.mentorg.com> wrote:
>In article <01bc98a3$cb2ac400$451363ce@dwagner>, "Dale Wagner" <dwagner@mail.coos.or.us> writes:
>|> It is probably because they don't have the control.
>
>Or the money.  I grew up in Astoria, where "cut and run" was the rule.
>As a boy scout in the early 70s, I planted (reforested) several thousand trees 
>on a Crown-Zellerbach clear cut.  In a watershed, no less.  That should have 
>never been my job.  It wasn't until the mid-70s that anyone in the timber 
>industry (with the exception of Weyerhauser, who had been doing it on the
>Washington side of the river for years) started to consider long term sustainable
>use.

Uhhh...the change came about because laws were passed requiring
replanting, a big issue when McCall was guv and fought by most
of the timber industry.

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