If we could make gasoline out of these beetles like that guy did with all those dead cats, we'd be in business!
This has been happening for years in the N.W. and in Ak. when we kived there (the whole Kenai Peninsula) my husband logged all his life and me too for 25, the enviro's have dried up towns and the economy all over the N.W. that's the plan stan. Instead of thinning and sometimes having to clear sections of bug infested forest and using the wood, the groups and dem's stop it with law-suits even if it is approved..by then it is too late or a fire comes in and it is a catastrophy, with fire, animals lost and homes, jobs everything. We have been fighting this for years but give up...there is only one mill left here on either side of us. We live between Id. & Mt. on the stateline by Canada..it is too sad, I could write a book. Some of the mill workers here vote democrat which is sad because of the unions and do not understand the politics of it all, why they don't have jobs anymore. Same goes for the mining too in this area. the enviro's are taking over if they can here in Mt. with Ted Turner and alot of Hollywood and big $ Peopl...I write letters to papers ect. does no good. Just keep voting..
Look at Hillary and Kerry last night at the pow-wow on C-Span with the bull they were saying about Anwar...we lived there for 8 years, I worked on oil spill in Seward ( that could be another book) that could of been stopped to but the enviro's stopped alot of immediate progress...just like the levee's...got to stop I am getting madder and hotter! Hope Bush calls for a National Disaster and orders drilling to start and lifts alot of the enviro. laws...he can, without law suits! If Texas gets hit we are in big trouble with the refineries and chemical plants getting hit that they use for the different mixes for the gas...so we'll see.