Their sole purpose is to over log in a destructive manner for a quick buck. Wood in building should be used for aesthetics such as cabinets, finish trim, paneling and flooring, not structural lumber. Let's learn to build with more steel and wood substitutes. Let's stop exporting wood and grow hemp for our paper. Our great Western forests are a lot more than so many board feet of lumber.
Forests help clean our air and are part of the carbon cycle.
Forests give us a spiritual connection with nature and an aesthetic satisfaction that no city can provide. They are a renewable resource and laboratory of life that need to be studied, not destroyed. Also, to heck with Clinton, as long as people are properly educated on how to behave in the wilderness, they should have total access to our national forests, including the judicious building of access roads. Only by people enjoying the forests will there be the political will to protect them. Michael Schwalm Penn Valley Join in the discussion about the logging protest in our forum .