Posted on 01/06/2005 11:15:59 AM PST by JeffersonRepublic.com
Forests in the Klamath-Siskiyou region have been named among the biggest and best in the nation by Greenpeace in a report released this week.
The area is known for its biodiversity and has the largest network of roadless wilderness in the Pacific Northwest, according to Joseph Vaile of the Klamath-Siskiyou Wildlands Center.
But he said commercial logging, mining and off-highway vehicles pose a threat.
Greenpeace says its 11 "keystone forests" should get greater protection since many of the nation's ancient forests are gone.
Split the State of California before it’s too late.
Holtz JeffersonRepublicans.com
I like the Red Bluff, Redding, Yreka areas. If the environmentalists are allowed to run the local political show, out will go the fishing, boating, and other outdoor recreation that have supported these areas since logging was curtailed. However it may be too late. The environmental Marxists already have the area in their sights. If dedicated locals don't put up a fight, Redding will be just a satellite of San Francisco, complete with numerous public toilets and free needles.
"Redding will be just a satellite of San Francisco, complete with numerous public toilets and free needles."
Over my dead body.
Holtz
JeffersonRepublic.com
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Thank you; Great list
The Klamath/Siskiyou/Modoc area is also California's prime quail habitat. Hunting drops a ton of money into the local economy. Grrr....
Well, "JR.com", I hope it won't come to that. The Redding City Council has gone weird, however, with that artsy bridge that now spans the Sacramento River. It is so extremely difficult to convince county supervisors or city council persons that an "object d'art", such as that bridge, will not become a reason that people will want to spend a week in Redding. The proposed equestrian center near Anderson, yes, if its done properly. But just an artsy bridge, no. Politicians want something that they can bolt on a plaque with their names on it and walk away. It doesn't work that way. The "Redding Mall" is evidence of that.
The Redding/Shasta/Lassen area is one of the nicest places in California. It deserves better leadership than it has had in the past.
Elbucko,
You must live in Redding to have so much insight. You’re right, Redding deserves better.
The whole North State is a great place, and a fun place to live.
Holtz
JeffersonRepublic.com
The only logging going on in the Klamath National Forest is on the east side of Siskiyou Co. The enviros sued on timber sales prepared on the Salmon River and the Klamath River corridor. My local ranger district hasn't had a timber sale in more than a decade.
All we are seeing is a few fuel reduction projects to thin out small diameter trees and underbrush. The enviros all go out to see the planned projects and scream any time a tree larger than 20 inches has been marked.
We no longer have the capacity to mill any large trees, anyway. All the sawmills in Siskiyou Co. are now closed. The forest is choked with underbrush, dead snags, suppressed growth trees, diseased and insect damaged trees. The Forest depedent communitees are stagnated in poverty and unemployment and all the social ills that accompany that state.
Now there is a strategic suit to stop all gold mining on the Klamath as a violation of ESA and the Clean Water Act. That is what this wonderful policy has brought to the Klamath.
The EPA is a taxpayer funded group of thieves--our elected representatives hire them to rob us. Their unelected leaders pass regulations, sue private business out of existence, use law enforcement to force normal people to act in ways unnatural to Americans.
The ESA is a sword wielded by the EPA to cut off progress, farming, the lumber industry, to destroy communities, to prevent construction, to impoverish Americans--
Why does this country put up with these unelected tyrants? Why does this country hire them, pay them with our tax dollars to destroy us? Where are our representatives?
BTT!!!!!
Trouble returning to the Klamath region ping...
Humboldt County is at that stage and it was led by the communist commune of Humboldt State in Arcata where a majority of the city council are members of the Greene Party. Eureka is on the verge of of steeping into the quicksand of socialism. The "growth" industries are non-profits feeding on taxpayer dollars...
Here is an example of where the people behind such measures want it to lead...as well as an example of what liberty loving Americans can and should do about it wherever it raises its ugly head. This is what actually happened in the Klamath BAsin in the summer and fall of 2001.
A LOT of people on this board and elsewhere were very involved in putting a stop to it back then...and trying to hold the ground since. Thanks for the ping ROcky.
Well, this representative is currently on the Free Republic website. I do my best to voice my constituent's and my own concerns about State and federal policy. I guess you could call me the "voice crying in the Wilderness."
I followed the Klamath Falls story here...very dramatic;
In my opinion, it's time to put an end to unelected agencies that enforce (with taxpayer money) an agenda that harms American property owners.
But sometimes I feel like a voice in the wilderness. I don't see any agencies ending...
Currently, the BoR has proposed a basin-wide ecosystem management, ensdangered species recovery and water use management decision structure it calls the CIP - Conservation Implementation Program. The proposed structure would have a Congress of any "stakeholders" (including counties and special interests) that could afford to attend. This group would make recommendations on decisions on issues and projects given to it by special technical committees. (These are typically staffed by special interest environmental/tribal/agency "scientists" working on politicized science.) Then the final decisions would be made by a group of federal agencies.
I am working with a group that proposes an alternative decision-making structure. It allows those that actually have planning authority to make recovery plans- the Counties over private land, the tribes over tribal land and the fed land management agencies over fed land - to validate local watershed planning efforts by the RCDs and watershed groups.
Planning would remain local.
A committee of elected county, elected tribal and a rep. from the fed land management agencies would prioritize projects for funding and work on opportunities to coordinate between jurisdictions. It is hoped that funding for projects would come as directly as possible to on the ground projects.
This approach respects the bottom up elected government process, local control and private property rights.
Of course, the two Governors of Oregon and CA signed an MOU with the federal agencies agreeing to coordinate on the Klamath River system. So, it looks like they are on their way in trying to do another top down command and control that bulldozes local people and their self government process.
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