Bush Administration Set to Log Oregon Old Growth Forest

[Judi Lynn]

Bush Administration Set to Log Oregon Old Growth Forest

ASHLAND, Oregon, July 26, 2006 (ENS) - The public comment period for the proposed Westside Timber Sale in western Oregon closed Monday, with a warning from conservation groups that the sale will clearcut more than two square miles of old growth forest. The conservationists say the logging will destroy habitat for the imperiled spotted owl and ruin salmon spawning streams.

“Timber sales like Westside mark a return to an old-growth logging program the likes of which we have not seen since the 1980s,” said Sean Cosgrove forest policy specialist for the Sierra Club. “We had hoped destructive logging like this was a thing of the past – but the Bush administration is planning to make old logging projects like this commonplace.”

The Westside logging sale, being proposed in the middle of fire season, has nothing to do with fuels reduction or protecting communities, a coalition of four forest conservation groups said Monday.

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) plans to log 3,374 acres in the Cow Creek Watershed. These streams flow into the salmon-bearing South Umpqua River.

After clearing these old growth stands, the BLM will create fire-prone industrial tree plantations, resulting in increased fire risk and harm to fish and wildlife. Over 10 miles of new logging road would be punched into the Middle Fork Cow Creek watershed, threatening water quality and fishing tourism in the area, the groups warn.
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http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/jul2006/2006-07-26-09.asp#anchor5

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

1. Cow Creek...

[Cha]

2. So beautiful!

My friend just moved to Eugene, Oregon and loves it cause it's so Progressive and gorgeous out there. She just sent some pics to me from a day hike.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

3. The whole Umpqua region...

is just about the most beautiful spot on Earth.

Probably why Bush wants to rape it.

[Gregorian]

10. She better not take one step away from Eugene.

I'm too lazy to post the pictures of my neighbor's burning property after they logged it. To be honest, the worst part was chainsaws all day for a third of a fucking year, AND log loading on trucks at 3am!

It is so utterly NONprogressive here, it's THE reason I'm selling my property. They are retarded. I can come up with no explanation. But Eugene and Portland are very progressive places. Not the remainder of the state.

[Cha]

11. That's the second time

I've heard that on DU. I'll have to mention that to her one day. Thanks for the reminder.

[populistdriven]

17. Cow Creek is now Logged

Aerial view of Cow Creek and "checkerboard" pattern of private and BLM public lands.


more http://www.oregonheritageforests.org/photo_tour

[RufusEarl]

4. Bu$h, and the scorched earth administration

My wife and i went to Oregon last year, just loaded up the van and took off. She had never been to the north west, and i made the joke that i wanted her to see it before Bu$h cut it down. Well i guess i wasn't making a joke after all. This is just a shame, of all places on this continent to turn logger's loose.

[partylessinOhio]

5. Why? when the Amazon Forest is dying?

We need to cherish every tree for one day we will have none left.

[Tesla]

6. My friend is moving to Bend, is that a progressive city?

[Pastiche423]

12. No

The more progressive towns/cities are on the coast. The further away from the coast you go, the redder the state.

I live on the coast.

[MissB]

14. I'd say it is getting more progressive

but not as progressive as Portland. There has been a tremendous influx of new residents into Bend in recent years. They're not all rednecks.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

7. What's next?

How do we stop this?

[Ezlivin]

8. Trees are fire hazards - they must be removed for our safety

Bush is making the planet safe for us by removing these fire hazards. Soon he'll start plans to drain all the lakes, rivers and oceans so that we need never worry about drowning.

He's got our best interests in mind.

[eppur_se_muova]

9. Book plug: "The Golden Spruce", by John Vaillant

http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0393058875.01._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-dp-500-arrow,TopRight,45,-64_AA240_SH20_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

The historical background is fascinating, and he presents a surprisingly sympathetic view of loggers who are slowly becoming aware that they are destroying the very outdoors they love. The central act of the book -- the felling of a unique tree sacred to local Native Americans -- is an act of protest which is difficult to fathom, and the disappearance of the perpetrator leaves the story unresolved, in at least one important sense. But the book does force the reader to think about some important questions, particularly about our reliance on natural resources which we take so for granted that we do not even seem to notice when they are obviously disappearing year by year.

[Straight Shooter]

13. I live in Oregon, near woods that are increasingly being logged.

FUGWB and the Repub whores you rode in on.

[humus]

15. we startswithW

"WE ARE DESTROYING OUR COUNTRY -- I mean our country itself, our land.
This is a
terrible thing to know, but it is not a reason for despair unless we
decide to continue
the destruction. If we decide to continue the destruction, that will
not be because we
have no other choice. This destruction is not necessary. It is not
inevitable, except
that by our submissiveness we make it so."



"...our country is not being destroyed by
bad politics, it is being destroyed by a bad way
of life. Bad politics is merely another result."


Our gross national product ... if we should judge America by that - counts air pollution and cigarette advertising, and ambulances to clear our highways of carnage. It counts special locks for our doors and the jails for those who break them. It counts the destruction of our redwoods and the loss of our natural wonder in chaotic sprawl. It counts napalm and the cost of a nuclear warhead, and armored cars for police who fight riots in our streets. It counts Whitman's rifle and Speck's knife, and the television programs which glorify violence in order to sell toys to our children.
"Yet the gross national product does not allow for the health of our children, the quality of their education, or the joy of their play. It does not include the beauty of our poetry or the strength of our marriages; the intelligence of our public debate or the integrity of our public officials. It measures neither our wit nor our courage; neither our wisdom nor our learning; neither our compassion nor our devotion to our country; it measures everything, in short, except that which makes life worthwhile. And it tells us everything about America except why we are proud that we are Americans."


"To the extent that we consume, in our present circumstances, we are
guilty.
To the extent that we guilty consumers are conservationists, we are
absurd."

-- Wendell Berry, 1987 http://www.tipiglen.dircon.co.uk/berr

-- Wendell Berry (http://www.brtom.org/wb/berry.html)

[klyon]

23. Thanks that is really important

you are so right about the GDP not including the most important stuff
Thanks again

[saigon68]

16. Wonder how many $$$$ the Loggers gave to the BIG CHIMP

and his Crime family

[ninkasi]

18. There is one thing we can count on

If there is something beautiful, and mystical, Republicans will exploit and ruin it. If harmony between nations comes about, they will destroy it. If the poorest of us work at a superhuman pace to get ourselves out of debt, they will crush us down. They are a scourge, and a blight on everything that is good and beautiful and right with the world.

They are a cancer on the soul of our country, and should be voted out of office, and prevented from causing any more damage to this country, or the world.

[glitch]

19. There is no excuse for cutting old growth, other than to prove they can

with a sneer. They will rot in their hell.

[PinkyisBlue]

20. the imperiled spotted owl

Once habitat for the imperiled spotted owl is gone and the species is wiped out, it will no longer have to be saved! That's the Bush way to get species off the endangered species lists.
The long-term goal is to destroy all the species that don't generate a profit for the private sector.

[sleipnir]

21. Fucking capitalists.

Always wanting to make a buck.

[shadowknows69]

22. Mother nature is going to evict us soon methinks

We haven't paid rent in a looong time.

[sutz12]

24. Funny you should say that.

I saw Kurt Vonnegut on TV some time ago. He described humans as a virus on planet earth, and it looks like she is trying to clean us out. :rofl:

[underpants]

25. 1995: President Clinton signs into law the salvage logging rider...

July 27
Things that happened on this day that you never had to memorize in school



1995: President Clinton signs into law the salvage logging rider, which mandates clearcutting of federal forests regardless of any environmental laws. He later claims he "didn't know what he was doing," but takes no action to slow the resulting devastation (and profits).

http://www.workingforchange.com/article.cfm?itemid=17214#27

[Coventina]

26. No Tree Left Behind

fuckers.

[donkeyotay]

27. I wonder which bush crony is getting his pay out nt