I owe my college education to environmentalists.
Yup, you heard that right.
You see, I went to college in 1991, just a few years after the wacky environmentalists got the stupid spotted owl on the endangered list.
This caused Weirhauser to close thousands of land they owned for logging. Wood prices went up. Private property owners called in the local tree cutters who then proceeded to strip cut their properties and sell the lumber. (Did I mention that private property owners don't replant trees that are cut like a lumber company would).
Anyway, my father called in the tree cutters to log 4 acres of our property at that time. Made enough money to help finance my brother and I at college.
We never replanted those trees, but turned the land into pasture.
Thank you crazy environmentalists for helping me get through college through the destruction of the trees on our private property!
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Thank you for your inspirational story! I, too, come from rural stock where the guiding principle is: There is no government program or regulation that you can't get around and/or milk like your favorite cow.
It makes me proud to come from such resourceful people. It helped the Russians survive 70 years of communism.
WOW........I just love a story with a happy ending......LOL