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on Obama Rolls Back Bush Logging Plan
Here's an article about it from the Sisters Nugget...maybe you can ask him about it next time.
"Timber industry advocate the American Forest Resource Council (AFRC) has appealed the Sisters Area Fuels Reduction (SAFR) project...The project was designed to reduce wildfire danger and improve forest health."
"AFRC also believes that the project doesn't cut enough trees. Burley said cutting trees over 21 inches in diameter is warranted, but the Sisters Ranger District chose to stop at 21 inches. AFRC would like to see more aggressive thinning."
posted 3 years, 11 months ago
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on Obama Rolls Back Bush Logging Plan
The vast majority of those 30,000 comments were against the WOPR.
posted 3 years, 11 months ago
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on Obama Rolls Back Bush Logging Plan
SAFR project near sisters. They claimed they couldn't cut enough big trees.
posted 3 years, 11 months ago
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on Obama Rolls Back Bush Logging Plan
Mr. Partin, why did your group sue to stop a thinning project designed to protect the community of Sisters earlier this year?
posted 3 years, 11 months ago
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on Obama Rolls Back Bush Logging Plan
It seems like as soon as we get news like this we get the same tired discussion - environmentalists are destroying the rural way of life and putting the lives of owls over loggers.
That's just not the case, and not a helpful conversation. Our forests have been mismanaged by timber bosses concerned not for the environment or sustainability, but next quarters profits. They’ve not only clearcut the forests, but their own credibility.
Conservationists on the other hand have as their mission protecting the public interest – clean air, clean water, wildlife habitat, and recreational opportunities.
There’s lots of work to be done in the forest. Cutting what’s left of our old-growth is rightfully controversial. If the timber industry, and all of our public land managers would follow the model of the Siuslaw, we’d see lots of economically and ecologically sustainable progress.
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on The Big Bad Wolf?
Wolves are beautiful animals and important to functioning ecosystems. They’re a native species and have a right to at least re-establish themselves before by being blasted by ranchers.
I sympathize, but we’ve been down this road before – it’s why we killed every last wolf in the 40’s. This is such a heavily subsidized industry (using public lands for private profit is a subsidy) already.
Unlike humans, wolves do a good job at controlling coyote numbers. If ranchers were really concerned about reducing livestock losses, they would welcome wolves back and eliminate domestic dogs – between those two animals they take over 6,000 sheep and cows a year in Oregon. Wolves – 24 lambs and 1 calf in the last 75 years!
The Oregon Wild blog gave some good perspective on the numbers and seemed pretty balanced. Where wolves have recovered, they represent less than 1% of all livestock losses. Seems it’s not wolves that are the problem.
To the OCA representative - why should we subsidize and support your industry when you want to kill our wildlife?
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