From the daily archives: Monday, March 9, 2015

Timber myths reemerge to plague Montana

On March 9, 2015 By

Senate Tester dissembles.-
Senators Tester and Daines plot suppression of challenges to timber sales-

Timber sales and timber harvest declined on the national forests in the Rocky Mountains during the Clinton Administration. The reason was the withdrawal of subsidies that supported higher levels of timbering.

Unlike the Southern national forests and those west of […]

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‎"At some point we must draw a line across the ground of our home and our being, drive a spear into the land and say to the bulldozers, earthmovers, government and corporations, “thus far and no further.” If we do not, we shall later feel, instead of pride, the regret of Thoreau, that good but overly-bookish man, who wrote, near the end of his life, “If I repent of anything it is likely to be my good behaviour."

~ Edward Abbey