Logging old-growth is a sham issue

Washington Times ^ | 8/28/02 | Tony Blankley

[kattracks]

There is little more revelatory to us Washington armchair, journo-politico, all-purpose, television/newspaper, expert, pundit/columnists than actually to talk with a fellow out West who works in an industry we just write about. I recently had correspondence with a man who, right up front, called himself "just a fat old logger now working on a farm." Well, as just a fat old lawyer now working on TV and a newspaper, I liked this fellow right off. I feel more comfortable around people who use ab crunchers to keep the refrigerator door open, and who get a six-pack at the liquor store, not a gym.

[D2]

Here in N.W. Michigan, several companies are still using Red Oak to make pallets!

[knarf]

"You must be from the East to be able to make that assumption."

Thunk it up all by m'seff wi' m' transplanted, proper Bostonian mind ... eyup, yoobetcha'

[tubebender]

Hi neighbors, sorry for not getting back to you but Eureka had sunshine today so we had a holiday. The fog rolled in at 4;30 so the party is over. I know Sierra Pacific very well as they had their start here yeas ago by "Curley" Emerson. His son "Red" is in charge now. He was the one who got the inside track on Southern Pacifics desire to sell all the timberlands they got in the 1860s to build the transcontinential railroad. Sierra Pacific is the largest landowner in Calif.

Yes I remember the TeePee burners of old. Monday was wash day because the mills didn't run on Sunday so all the housewives hung the wash out on Monday morning and took them in before the ash started to fall. My wifes father was head sawyer for Hammond Lumber in Samoa, across the bay from Eureka. He died in 1955 from heart failure. Owed his sole to the company store. GVgirl, I'm surprised to hear that
Redwood grows in Plumas County ?

[GVnana]

Ah yes. The teepee burners! 20 years ago a bunch of Russians came here and bought (with USSR $$$ of course) two entire mills. No kidding! They dismantled them and shipped them to Russia. Not exactly high-tech stuff, so I never fully understood why they couldn't be built in Russia. But then I heard a story that rural Russians would burn-down their own barns when they decided to throw a real bender. Guess it kept them challenged through the winter.

Nope. Not plumas county -- Nevada County directly west of Reno on the Tahoe shore. Checkerboard country. And yes, we have Redwood, but not in the quantities you mossbacks do!

[Grampa Dave]

Thanks for the ping. I have bookmarked this to use as a new growth 2 X 4 with the next whining Green Weenie Tree Hugger, crying about killing old growth trees.

[blackie]

Yeah, everytime we hear a Green Weenie or a Weenie toady use the term "old growth" we should call them on their $hit !!

Stop the attacks on our Freedoms by the wacko, extreme left-wing, lunatic fringe, dirt worshipping Green Jihadist, enviro-nazis terrorist's and their toadies in the media !!

Freedom Is Worth Fighting For !!

Molon Labe !!

FMCDH !!

F.I.R.E. !!

[Tailgunner Joe]

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