W. T. Haswell writes: >Your disrespectful reply to Jerry West does not due the list a service, Patrick. >Your description of the demise of the salmon runs as the result of everything >but logging, and your flippant trivialization of landslides to a measure of >percentage of total area echoes your prostitution to a pursuit devoid of any >science. Simply unbelievable. I can't imagine how my reply was disrespectful, am I supposed to tug my forelock? I did not say that logging caused no damage, I said dams, overfishing, agriculture and urbanization caused more damage, and that dams, agriculture and urbanization's impacts are permanent whereas logging, and hopefully overfishing, can be temporary. Perhaps the best evidence for this can be found in "Fisheries, Status of Anadromous Salmon and Trout in British Columbia and Yukon, Vol. 21 No. 10, October 1996" There are 9,663 identified stocks of salmon in BC and Yukon. 142 of these are extinct. All but three of these extinct stocks are either in the populated, urbanized, farmed area in south-west BC or in the Columbia River (dams). While logging may cause temporary depression in stocks, it rarely, if ever, causes extinction. Depressed stocks can be rebuilt, this is more difficult for extinct ones. Also, 62 of the extinct stocks, nearly half, are in the Greater Vancouver area where the spawning streams are in cement pipes. Just trying to get things in perspective for those of you who think logging is the main threat to ecosystems. Forestry is the most sustainable of all the primary industries by which the human species obtains food and materials. Cheers Patrick Moore, Greenspirit http://www.greenspirit.com May the Forest be With You Snail Mail: 4068 West 32nd Avenue Vancouver, B.C. V6S 1Z6 Canada
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