Hi John,
I've never been to Oregon, but even on the sattelite pictures you get
from GoogleEarth you can clearly see a depressing mosaic of clearcuts in
Wallowa National "Forest". It really is a shame!!!!!!
I've seen it with my own eyes in the northern Californian redwood
forests where the state one the hand pays hundreds of millions of
dollars to buy old growth stands from lumber companies and where on the
other hand the pathetic remaining forests are clearcut without mercy in
the most ruinous way to press the most money out of them. The
consequence is erosion, landslides, salmon habitat loss and
unemployment. And the profit goes somewhere totally else. This is not
ethical, rather criminal.
And 150 years ago the American West was a pristine wilderness!!!
What have we done???
Volker
P.S.: I have to add that to me it is still awesome to me what there is
left. There is nothing coming even faintly close here in Europe to what
you still have in the States, but this is not an excuse.
John Hartog schrieb:
> Hi Lou,
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> They call the National Parks what they are - parks. Might as well
> name the "Forests" what they really are...
> I do not mean to single out Oregon =96 it's the same everywhere.
>
> John Hartog
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> > They have renamed the forests as "Clearcuts?" How sad... Oregon is a
> > depressing drive...
> >
> > Sorry for OT.
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