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catherine yronwode wrote:

> Meanwhile, the marbeled murrellet nesting season officially ends
> September 15th -- which clears the way for the renewed logging of the
> ancient groves. The rally in Carlotta on September 14th will attract
> thousands of demonstrators, just as the previous one did last year. In
> the time since last year's big rally, a "boycott old growth redwood"
> campaign has gotten off the ground (and it was not started by Earth
> Firsters, lest you and Mark Shippey should impugn it with an
> "eco-terrorist" label).

Of course don't ever think that foresters or wildlife officials care at
all about non game birds. The education of natural resource
professionals is extremely narrow minded. Foresters are taught to see
the beauty of logs on the hoof which they refer to as "stumpage". They
see no beauty or value to "old growth timber". The forest is just a
factory to produce the raw product for boards. To wildlife officials,
the only animals that count are the ones you can shoot.

> 
> There is a lot of activity in the news concerning Headwaters Forest --
> and the only "old propaganda" i have seen has come from you, with your
> truly lame anti-communist rhetoric ('The People's republic of
> California," indeed!), and Mark Shippey, with his continual
> regurgitation of some dumb manual about tree-spiking that came out ten
> years ago.
> 

CA happens to be one of the most conservative states in the country. The
media of course loves to discuss all the strange cults and life styles
that exist in the land of perpetual summer, but in reality CA is ultra
conservative- the state that passed that law greatly restricting state
taxes, so schools and libraries have to be second rate- and the state
that recently ended affirmative action. CA is no people's republic.

> What i am saying is that the current federal and state guidelines that
> allow clearcutting on steep slopes in the West must stop because the
> subsequent loss of topsoil due to heavy seasonal rains has a history of
> leading to environmental collapse.
> 

Being a forester myself, I know for a fact that heavy logging in those
areas could be done without causing erosion. The techonlogy exists- for
carefull building of log and skid roads- doing the cutting in drier
weather- whole books have been written on the subject- but the timber
companies and the government agencies aren't doing it the right way. I
attribute this to just plain ignorance and insensitivity. The people in
"leadership" positions in the governement agencies tend to be folks
trained before the enviromental movement existed- insufficiently
trained.