Fuck... fuck fuck fuck...fuck. Walker makes move to harvest last old growth forrest.

[Ellipsis]

FUCK...

Gov. Scott Walker is calling for more trees to be harvested from a national forest in far northern Wisconsin as part of the state's efforts to spur growth in its struggling timber industry.

Loggers and forestry experts have complained about how the Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest has been managed. They say the 1.5-million-acre forest is being underused, in part because of shortsighted federal harvest plans, Gannett Wisconsin Media reported ( http://post.cr/JmKVF9).

Walker agreed, saying in a statement Thursday that he thinks a more responsible harvest plan would yield greater output and provide an economic boost.

"The Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest contains a valuable resource that, right now, is underutilized _ millions of feet of timber just waiting to be harvest in an environmentally sensitive, sustainable way," Walker said. "This is another way to ensure forestry remains a vibrant part of Wisconsin's economy."


...fuck.


http://lacrossetribune.com/news/state-and-regional/wi/walker-wis-forest-being-underused-for-logging/article_48a38d6e-cc0a-5248-b13f-259f4c291677.html

[shenmue]

1. Must silence the trees!

The trees are our enemy!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. He is without a soul. A horrible excuse for a human.

I am sickened.

[blkmusclmachine]

26. Some days I seriously wonder if the GOP has a suicide pact to bring down the planet.

[defacto7]

27. I agree.

It's called dominionism by most.

[RC]

3. What the hell...

Walker said. "This is another way to ensure forestry remains a vibrant part of Wisconsin's economy."

How does cutting down the last of the old growth forests ensure any kind of forest? All some people can see is dollar signs.

[postulater]

4. Old-growth timber 'Underused'?

Tell that to the martens, northern spotted owls, black bears and other native species.

This is too much. I am about to get sick.

[rhett o rick]

5. Harvesting old growth in a "sustainable way". What bullcrap. nm

[Scuba]

6. There's nothing these asshats won't exploit for profit or power.

[Ed Suspicious]

7. These guys love to turn everything nature into a capitalized commodity. They never met a strip mine

or a deforestation zone they didn't like. In the end they'll cut down all the trees and start selling oxygen in a bottle.

[Curmudgeoness]

14. Your comments brought this to mind.

[Ed Suspicious]

8. It's not even about jobs, I think, it's about more money to his resource raping, capitalist pig-dog

friend's off-shore accounts.

[hue]

9. Even when Wanker's body turns to ashes the Earth will vomit them up!!

Wanker & associates view Mother Earth as their raw commodity for raping & profit!!

Personally I can't take anymore of him. (Praying for indictments...)

[Aldo Leopold]

10. Love the Chequamegon!

Many fond memories there as a younger man. A beautiful and wondrous forest.

God damn Scott Walker!

[ancianita]

11. Isn't that part of the North Woods? Calling all tree huggers! Yep, those trees are "just waiting"

to be destroyed. You can just smell the greed emanating from his mouth... "...snort...Something growing! Must destroy get money...slobberslobber..."

[Half-Century Man]

12. Underutilized? Are you fucking high?

No your not high on anything but other peoples money. So what if we were using it to convert carbon dioxide into oxygen via solar power.

I swear Walker is such a greed driven willfully stupid man, even Mahatma Gandhi would want to kick his ass.

[Enthusiast]

38. I wish Gandhi would kick his ass.

[Curmudgeoness]

13. I have seen the results of "responsible harvest plans".

These results did not make it possible for sustainable forestry. No timber company wants to go in and harvest just a few trees per acre, using horses to get the downed trees out. And they don't take all the "scrap" like huge piles of branches left all over the area, making new growth impossibly choked out.

[japple]

17. Yes, I know what you mean. The old growth forest of Georgia pines down the

road from me (about 400 acres) have, in the last few months, been ripped out by the roots and hauled off for paper or fake pine logs, or pallets, or whatever they use pine trees for these days. I really feel guilty because I use Feline Pine cat litter. Where can I go now?

Edit to add: There will probably be either chicken houses or a crappy subdivision to replace the old piney woods that were there when my mother was born here in 1917.

[cheapdate]

20. That's awful.

[Curmudgeoness]

22. For litter, I would expect that they use scrap pine

in that litter, but you could try the litter made from old newspapers (Fresh News, Yesterdays News, etc). I don't, I still use clay litter, but I did try the wheat based Swheat Scoop and hated it---although a lot of people like it.

I mourn for your old piney woods. It seems that places of purely natural beauty have no purpose to the money grubbers.

[defacto7]

28. "responsible harvest plan"

is the political term for "clear cut"... = eliminate forest, plant tree farm or just slash and burn.

[Ace Acme]

33. They leave a buffer zone by the highway so the blind tourists can pretend it's not clearcut nt

[defacto7]

34. Yes, better known as the "corridor".

and sometimes it's posted as a "protected forest area by so and so" and it's only 100 yards deep on both sides of the road. In Oregon they don't even bother with that anymore unless the clear cut is on federal land. Oregon is where I was born and raised... it is not the same place anymore. I can't even recognize the trails I used to hike back in the 70's. Save what you have left Wisconsin. It's worth fighting for.

[Ace Acme]

39. When the looters of the Wisconsin pine forests ran out of timber

they moved to the Sierra Redwoods in California.

When old buildings are bulldozed today to make way for new developments, the riches of those forests are lost.

[Capt.Rocky300]

15. The Koch Brothers own Georgia-Pacific.........

They'd love to make 2X4s out of those trees.

[madrchsod]

16. bingo!

[glinda]

18. They have an office there right? A headquarters? Sad that these

horrible people are not creative to pursue other venues less destructive. WTF is wrong with them?

[japple]

32. Yep, and build millions more chicken houses with them. Kochroaches have bought up

lots of the chicken producers around here. Someone is putting in 10 enormous chicken houses about 2 miles from me. It will stink to high heaven all year round and in summer there will probably be lots more flies.

[glinda]

19. Petition anywhere???????

[Ace Acme]

21. He wants to "harvest" what neither he, nor any of his greatest grandest ancestors ever planted.

In the industry they call these trees "over-mature" because their growth rate has slowed down.

[postulater]

23. Over mature trees get hollowed out

by rot and used by owls, pileated woodpeckers, porcupines and dozens of other important residents.

250 years of growth....Gone!

[Enthusiast]

37. Old standing dead trees might be most valuable of all to wildlife.

Even after they fall they provide a bountiful food chain starting with fungi and insects.

I know of a gigantic standing dead elm. It's been dead for decades but stands on with no remaining bark. The morels like it.

[lutefisk]

24. Considering that fucker was born in Colorado...

...his ancestors had nothing to do with Wisconsin.

Walker does not care in the slightest about our state. Isn't from here, doesn't want to be here- he's a con man, plain and simple.

[blkmusclmachine]

25. The GOP will pave over the entire planet if they could. And far too many DEMS would just stand aroun

and watch in silence, for fear of looking "too political."

[defacto7]

29. I'm convinced

that Walker and his ilk do these atrocities just to make people hurt, not to build industry. They like it. It's a drug. It's to feel power when you can make people who can feel, feel pain and that you can enrich yourselves on that pain just makes it more exciting. Sociopaths. Psychopaths. They have no respect or insight past their own ego. They feel nothing.

Trees are the grandest, longest living life form on this planet, and they would kill them off in minutes, seconds... for what? We kill the trees, we kill our own species. The earth will win in the end but we won't be here.

[Enthusiast]

30. It's what I have come to expect from this POS.

An already wealthy few will reap the rewards of cutting these trees at the expense of millions of us.

You will hear these assholes say, "But trees are a renewable resource."

Yeah, they're renewable, but not in my lifetime.

[defacto7]

35. The trees may be regrowable but not renewable.

It's the cellulose they use for products that's renewable. The forest is NOT renewable in less than 400 years. Then it probably won't be the same type of tree or foliage or be inhabited by the same animal, insect or microbial foundation IF it can happen at all. But words like "renewable" are an advertisement ploy; there's no such thing in real earth ecology, just business.

[Enthusiast]

36. Yeah!

And mostly they want to clear cut and replace it with a monoculture. When I grew up in forested Ohio it was a mostly hardwood deciduous. Our forest was comprised of oak, maple, beech, ash, cherry and poplar. When they cut the forest they replaced it with rows of white pine. It is just not the same.

[a kennedy]

31. Isn't there anything we can do??

[Ellipsis]

40. I'vebeen off the grid since I posted this.....WOW, what a response.

This is not the first time that the powers that be have gone after this old growth forest... a friend of mine back in the day did a documentary/report on the a rare species, I want to say a pine martin.... who's habitat twas exclusive to the northern part of the state... but it has been many years... I'm going to have to dig, that could be a start.

[Viking12]

41. fortunately, Walker has no input in USFS management plans