Patrick Moore wrote:
> The Sierra Legal Defense Fund is basically an
> anti-logging group of lawyers raising funds to attack the industry.
>
> Cheers
Jerry The Janitor writes:
And the Forest Alliance (of which I believe Patrick is a director) is an
industry funded propaganda organ reputedly created with the help of
National Public Relations (connected to Burson Marstellar, big time
corporate spin specialists whose philosophy is that perception is
everything, and who, among other things, were supposed to have helped
the Argentine generals convince the world that they were really nice
guys and no one was being tortured and dissappeared during the years of
terror down there), whose real purpose is to cloud the issues in the
forest and dirvert attention away from any issue that may result in lost
profits to the industry.
Everything posted or published by Patrick should ethically have a
disclaimer that states: The following material is commercial advertising
bought and paid for by the corporate, industrial forest interests of
British Columbia.
The attitude and direction of this industry is exemplified in a
statement that I received from a high level forestry suit from Vancouver
(VP and Chief Forester) in a public meeting a few years back.
I asked the question:
What are your plans for long term, sustainable harvesting
of old growth timber over the next 100-200 years.
The answer:
We will have plenty of 50 year old trees. When we finish
logging the valleys we will log the ridge lines. Then we
log the 50 year old trees.
There is no plan for sustainable old growth forest in this province,
other than the miniscule amount (to use a Patrick phrase) locked up in
parks and protected areas. There would not be such a pressing need to
set aside old growth forest if we had and enforced better forest
management policies, and logged in a manner that would allow most forest
to return to old growth between harvestings.
The real issue in the forest is how do we preserve both environmental
integrity and a reasonable level of employment. Preserving
environmental integrity is straight forward, we know how to do that if
we want to. What we are really fighting over is economics and how
forest revenue is going to be distributed.
For those interested in some of the environmental issues that have been
mentioned in the last few days of postings on this list, you can find
some of the reports and other info at the following web site:
http://sierralegal.org/reports.htm
Jerry West
Editor/publisher/janitor
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