A California spotted owl is shown inside the Tahoe National Forest in California, in this July 12, 2004, file photo. A federal judge on Wednesday, Aug. 1, 2007, issued a preliminary injunction to stop Weyerhaeuser Co. from logging in spotted owl habitat on four parcels of private land in Washington. (AP Photo/Debra Reid)
Spotted Owls make great soup! (How they learned to cook is still a mystery.)
Not this horsesh*t again.
Here we go again...
Don’t feel sorry for Weyerhaeuser, it is common knowledge that they were privately backing the environmentalist when this first came up in the late 80s. The ban was only on publicly held lands, state and federal. It did not include private lands in which Weyerhaeuser has the largest holding in Washington State.
The small logging and mill companies were dependent on government timber sales. Those are the ones the ban hurt the most and went out of business leaving Weyerhaeuser and a few other big companies that owned their own timber to be the only game in town and to price their products accordingly.
The donations to the Sierra Club and others were a write off and were more than made up for by the higher prices they were able to charge for their products.
They have had 17 years to log with little or no effect by the ban. When this all shakes out, it will have little or no adverse effect on them.