Comments on: Obama Admin. Rolls Back Bush-Era Rules on Mining & Forests

By: SteveC

SteveC — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 16:07:13 +0000

I applaud this action, but also agree that resources should be treated as crops. Proper management of the forest requires that cutting not exceed annual regrowth. The degree of logging allowed under Bush far exceeded regrowth, a fact which would inexorably lead to total depletion of the resource (possibly good for now, but very bad for later). What’s really unfortunate is that such a common sense issue somehow became politicized.

By: Boutime

Boutime — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 15:53:12 +0000

“The point being, rather than name calling and getting upset, you might want to consider how your own actions are doing more harm than good.”

Yes! Perfectly said. It is surreal how upside down truth and misinformation is these days…

By: Shaithis

Shaithis — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 14:55:22 +0000

The point being, rather than name calling and getting upset, you might want to consider how your own actions are doing more harm than good.

By: Shaithis

Shaithis — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 14:52:36 +0000

Listen Lurch, I understand your desire to make Old Growth forests a monument to nature, but the fact is that these natural resources are better off treated as a crop rather than left alone to there own devices.

Fragmentation of the environment has already taken it’s toll on this land and already severely limited bio-diversity in these old growth forests. Heck mother nature routinely tears down and rebuilds these forests, on her own, but since we put out every fire, man made or not we don’t see that. Except now when there is a forest fire, the results is catastrophic and takes even longer for the ecosystem to recover.

Even thousands of years ago, Indians routinely burned or cleared HUGE areas of land to maintain prairie lands for grazing animals, how is that any different than what we do today. There are even more forest lands today than in the early part of the 20th century.

By: YouRang

YouRang — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 13:44:39 +0000

Yeah, that IS what the country needs right now–a view to the future. Not cutting old growth forests for a temporary FIX (as in HEROIN fix) at the cost of increased topsoil runoff is a super idea. You Bush short-sighted morons really piss me off. There are ways to increase production without giving away public resources to Republican/Bush political contributors.

By: Shaithis

Shaithis — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 12:30:51 +0000

Just what the economy needs right now, higher prices for wood and natural resources.

By: Radmilo

Radmilo — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 09:52:08 +0000

GO OBAMA!