Andy Kerr was at a rally in Roseburg several years back when Jim Hunt of
KRNR radio asked him what timber could be harvested his answer was "Not one
damn stick". He was for completely blocking logging from all land.

Many companies have a policy of replanting two trees for every one cut.
Nobody logs and ignores the land or burns and ignores it. That is a
narrowminded and and uninformed viewpoint. Many timber companies want in to
replant after a burn but are generally blocked by the radical
environmentalists (the Andy Kerr crowd).

"Larry Caldwell" wrote in message
...
In article ,
writes:

My hubby worked in a mill in down in Riddle for nearly 15 years. They
did
nothing but special cuts. That included metric cuts. Shipped many loads
over
seas. That wasn't their reason for problems. Your more extreme
environmentalists (like Andy Kerr) made the diameter of harvestable
timber
resemble the size of a toothpick (used to call them poles). Can't go in
and
salvage good timbers in burned areas anymore either.

Don't blame Andy Kerr for the toothpicks. The USFS and BLM didn't start
replanting their land after logging until the mid 70s. The oldest reprod
they have are 30 year old trees, when we could have been looking at 50
year old trees. The federal government has never managed their land
better than the average drunken moron. The ceaseless abuse of federal
forests is the single most compelling argument for privatizing federal
timber lands. Now, instead of logging the land and ignoring it, they
have moved on to burning it down and ignoring it.

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