>>Return-Path: <ARVE36A@prodigy.com> >Errors-To: <ARVE36A@prodigy.com> >From: ARVE36A@prodigy.com (MS PATSY M POPE JR) >Date: Mon, 5 May 1997 10:31:09, -0500 >To: Brooke_Dunbar@ittsheraton.com, gpope@cris.com, nzenctrs@wave.co.nz, > ToriM29@aol.com >Subject: (Fwd) Flying by > >The mental picture made me laugh! > >Cheers, >P > >Pope_ff > > Challenged by my sister Patsy Jr.'s posting to our family list? see below. >Subject: Look, up in the sky... > >From the Audubon Society Magazine: > >"A Mexican newspaper reports that bored Royal Air Force pilots >stationed on >the Falkland Islands have devised what they consider a marvelous new >game. >Noting that the local penguins are fascinated by airplanes, the >pilots search >out a beach where the birds are gathered and fly slowly along it at >the >water's edge. Perhaps 10,000 penguins turn their heads in unison >watching the >airplane go by, and when the pilots turn around and fly back, the >birds turn >their heads in the opposite direction, like spectators at a slow- >motion >tennis match. Then, the paper reports, the pilots fly out to sea, >then turn >back directly toward the penguin colony and over fly it. Heads go up, >up, up, >and 10,000 penguins fall over gently onto their backs." > > ><< End of Forwarded message >> > Indeed down here in California penguins are falling over on their backs, all over the place. A client of mine owns 22 acres of Redwoods on Deer Creek in Santa Cruz Countyis also happens to be a published student of environmental problems and realities also . In this area Local State and County Government anticipating another "Penguin hue and cry" decided that 75% shade maintainable down in these creeks was the answer. In our regulatory climate this was forward thinking, never the less it will cost my client $5000 out of pocket as a resulting of a categorical reduction of 20mbf second growth redwood (4 truck loads) dedicated to stream shading requirements subtracting from my original tally of 189mbf net log scale net regulations (<60% allowable aesthetic cut). In addition to recent local TV commentary discussing "protected" Seal - Coho depredations my client has personally observed many sick salmon that have been afflicted with boils, cancers and etc which he believes are the result of overflowing septic tanks and maybe a few drug lab waste discharges into local creeks. Here we all recall the recent rejection of the industry Spotted Owl study which was based on higher levels of accuracy than the originally government study which spelled a death nell for Western timber folk. This study showed higher numbers of owls (living in second growth and on golf courses and etc). When presented to Government we were told to go back and collect more data spend more money and etc.! Clearly in such matters supposedly responsible officials are not interested in facts. Cohos and Spotted Owls further negatively effect my timber brokering clients. There are now about 4 mills active in the Santa Cruz Mt. log market down from 8 to 10. Competition always ensures both higher levels of technological efficiency and competitive log prices. The later now tend to be tied less directly to actual lumber supply and demand and more to what the big guys want to pay. We appear to urge market economics on Russia and the 3rd world but here at home the when Sierra Club promotes aesthetic environmental Tsars and prostrating little guys in the courts the public listens. As a result government regulators over regulate fearing law suits of an entirely adversarial nature. Mean while Tree Farmers are now preoccupied not with growing trees and high yield forestry but with regulations and permits for what? their last timber harvest? >and 10,000 penguins fall over GENTLY? onto their backs." Sick humor from the Audobon Society. Got home from the field at 10pm. Now its 1am. In part tomorrow is already a partially waisted. And the above should have been written more acutely. George George Pope, 415 574 2799, gpope@cris.com
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