>I suspect that I am not the only one on this list who is getting tired of >Mr. Moore's endless requests for documentation. If he is, as his posts >would make me think, an industry "mouth", then it would, perhaps, be best >that we all ignore him.I made the mistake of giving him extensive >documentation on the logging roads issue and when he couldn't refute it he >ignored it. It is clear to me that he doesn't want documentation as much as >he wants to be argumentative and to negate any discussion that he sees as >pro-environmental. Being a BC resident, I can fully support your suspicions. Patrick Moore (author of Pacific Spirit - the forest reborn), is a director of a "citizens" group The Forest Alliance who were set up by the BC forest industry and BC government on the advice of New York crisis consultants, and maintain ties with the US "wise use movement", and Moony Ron Arnold. It was recently released that the BC government with the help of Patrick Moore's Forest Alliance (www.forest.org)spent $65 million public money on public relations to convince BC residents that we have sustainable forestry in British Columbia. If they were telling the truth, BC residents could see that for themselves, without the $65 million propoganda campaign! The BC Ministry of Forests (and industry) vision is to "clean up" and replace old growth "decadent" forests with short rotation (60 year) fiber farms. The main sustainable aspect of industrial forestry in BC to date has been the rapid soil errosion, and loss of biological diversity in our forests. Very little is know about the ecology of our forests, especially microscopic soil organisms, and after 135 years of highgrading, and cutting almost exclusivly old growth, we have almost no productive low altitude old growth left. Our government's much fussed about 12% "protected areas" have been mostly selected to exclude the valuable forests, and include large areas of unproductive forest and non-forest alpine areas. Areas outside "parks" are being targetted for even higher extraction rates. Much of our wood is sold uncompetitively at super low prices, and exported as raw cants, so the jobs and economic argument are half truths. Geza Vamos Email: geza@portal.ca Web: www.portal.ca/~geza "We do not sustain the forest; the forest sustains us"
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