29-10-2002, 05:26 PM
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History of the Na'tl Forests (was: Logging (again))
In article nk.net,
says...
"George Gehrke" wrote in message
news:5Uqu9.9696$46.6848@fe01...
But I don't want what forests remain
"managed". I want you out of them and
everyone else like you.
Leave what's left, 100% alone.
I'm more on your side than not, yet many people have a problem
with this thinking. It was soon after I began to wonder about
such things, in particular about how realistic it might be to hold
such opinions as yours, that I realized I needed to learn a lot
more about the history of the forests, and of the use of natural
resources in the U.S. in general (which is why I'm now in law
school, btw).
This has led me to learn about the legislative history of our
national forests, as embodied in things like The Right-of-Way
Permit Acts of 1891 and 1901, The Forest Right-of-Way Act of 1905,
The Organic Administration Act of 1897, The Multiple-Use
Sustained-Yield Act of 1960, etc.
When the national forests were being created in the 1890s and
onward, their purposes were two-fold: To secure the ability to
produce timber, and to protect the precious sources of water which
auto snip
That's a good rational, educated response. Too bad this is no longer a
pragmatic issue but a philosophical one, and too bad that it has to be
revisited every time a new crop of cross posters blows in. Reconciling
the practitioner's knowledge with the activists idealized goals is
difficult but probably the best function of this group.
The usual response to newbies in other newsgroups is, look up the FAQ
before posting or at least read a few months of posts to catch the tone.
We don't have a FAQ. Maybe we ask Joe to write one or at least post
one. Some of the new blood might like it here and stay, and maybe we all
learn something.
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