Thanks for your observations, Peggy.  I have not been to the Carolinas, but
I have been to the forests of the NW, and I saw the same kinds of clearcuts
there.

Jane Clark
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> From: Peggy Murdock <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: National Forest News
> Date: Friday, October 15, 1999 1:16 PM
>
> Yesterday Infobeat quoted the president as assuring the timber industries
> that what he is saving is only a minuscule portion of all the national
> forests and that all the places that have been open to the timber
industry
> are still open.  Here is a cut and past from the article
>
> "The remote, largely pristine parcels of land Clinton wants to preserve
> represent a mere fraction of federally owned forest, he said. Vast
reaches
> of other federal timberland are already available for logging and other
> development."
>
> He assured them that national forests were not going to be
> "museums".  (Aren't museums full of stale air and dead things?)  Somehow
I
> think this is much less than 100% of what I hope for.  A couple of years
> ago I took a drive through North and South Carolina and couldn't believe
> that what I was seeing was national forest.  It was clearcut fields
> alternating with fields that were just beginning to grow back....  And
this
> belongs to us?  I think it belongs to the timber industry, and that they
> should be paying more than the market price for the privilege of cutting
> down our living natural heritage.
>
> Peggy Murdock
>
> At 11:29 PM 10/13/99 , you wrote:
> >FROM MELANIE GRIFFIN AT SIERRA CLUB, forwarded by Jane Clark at
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> >===========================================================
> >  AWESOME NEWS ON FOREST WILDLANDS!
> >

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