“If we had Governors with backbones that is exactly what we would do.”
Politicians do the bidding of the people who fund their campaigns and provide them with cushy lobbying and consulting jobs when they leave office. Apparently in Oregon the environmentalist lobby spends more time taking care of the politicians than the timber industry and the people who work in it.
I worked at a very large forest products company. A BIG one.
At the time of my retirement (3 years ago), I was stunned at the amount of Birkenstocks and hackey sack types working at HQ. It was not that way 35 years ago when I started in the industry. They have infiltrated.