oh god.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20752-2004Dec22.html
so uhm.
bush finally did it. He's been working on it for years. but now [probably because of the republican house and senate]...
okay so before, when a timber company wanted to log on public land [which isn't neccesary for america's timber needs, there are enough private tree farms for that. most of this wood is shipped to asia] they had to go through certain hoops that allowed the public a say in the use of their land. the forest service, for example, had to release an enviromental impact statement [EIS] that analyzed the effects of the cutting.
but... who needs forests anyway.
its not as if biodiversity is essential to the continued functioning of a collection of organisms [like the planet].
I mean...
who cares if there are no forests left, and therefore no wolves or elk or bears or any of those dumb animals anyway. at least we'll have cows still.
with the legal recourses to prevent forests from being destroyed [at taxpayers expense, by the way... timber companies are heavily subsidized because they don't make enough profit... so fiscal conservatives should be against this too] gone, pretty much the only thing left to do... is up to your imagination.
so uhm.
bush finally did it. He's been working on it for years. but now [probably because of the republican house and senate]...
okay so before, when a timber company wanted to log on public land [which isn't neccesary for america's timber needs, there are enough private tree farms for that. most of this wood is shipped to asia] they had to go through certain hoops that allowed the public a say in the use of their land. the forest service, for example, had to release an enviromental impact statement [EIS] that analyzed the effects of the cutting.
but... who needs forests anyway.
its not as if biodiversity is essential to the continued functioning of a collection of organisms [like the planet].
I mean...
who cares if there are no forests left, and therefore no wolves or elk or bears or any of those dumb animals anyway. at least we'll have cows still.
with the legal recourses to prevent forests from being destroyed [at taxpayers expense, by the way... timber companies are heavily subsidized because they don't make enough profit... so fiscal conservatives should be against this too] gone, pretty much the only thing left to do... is up to your imagination.