Re: Email comments

[Joseph Zorzin]

Wow, reading most of that has given me a headache.

 

It really all comes down to there being a full spectrum of opinions from those want the state forests to be managed as if they are national parks- and those who think state lands should be a huge tree farm.

 

There really isn't any one definitive answer to this problem. Though my life's work has been forestry I completely understand the perspective of those who want the state lands to become like national parks.

 

This huge battle could have been avoided if: we had elections for state politicians free from the influence of lobbyists - and if we had a state government run with a fully functioning civil service system.

 

I suggest that regardless of what this FFVP comes up with and regardless of what the Commissioner and even the Secretary of Environmental Affairs decide- the real resolution of these issues will have to come from the legislature and by a reform of the civil service system. I suggest that the current administration doesn't have the political power or courage to find a winning solution which will end the controversy.

 

For the same reason- on the national level- we can't solve problems such as fixing the broken health care system, reforming the regulations on banks and other financial entities, ending waste in the Pentagon budget, etc. No amount of talking in vision processes will fix those problems without fundamental reform of how government works. All that talking just further polarizes the problem- a functioning government would resolve such controversies quickly and cleanly with little residue of anger which we are going to see from this FFVP.

 

Meanwhile, having reviewed most of the commentaries, I'll repeat what I said a few days ago- by far, the most sensible commentary was that by Massachusetts Audubon. It's free of emotion, science based, free of greedy self interest and it is in the long term interest of the public. I hope the state leaders read that one very carefully. And keep in mind that Mass. Audubon has over 100,000 members.

Joe

 

----- Original Message -----

From: Bill Logue

To: forest-futures-techni...@googlegroups.com

Sent: Thursday, February 25, 2010 5:40 PM

Subject: Email comments

Dear TSC,

 

All of the email comment is now available online as are the comment cards collected at the forums. A link is pasted below. We are finalizing formatting on US mail comments, the forum notes and a few other items and those will go up, we expect on Friday. I will email you when they are available.

 

Please take the time to look through these as  there is some very thoughtful feedback for you to consider.

 

Bill

 

http://www.mass.gov/dcr/news/publicmeetings/forestry/comments.htm