Forestry letters please

[dirty...@riseup.net]

Since The Herald doesn't allow back-and-forth debates, but allows single
author responses to letters, will folks please write the editor and
counter this person's bullshit?

Logging part of good forest management
http://www.durangoherald.com/article/20110221/OPINION03/702219965/-1/opinion03

(search the internet for stuff like "deforestation facts america" for
talking points!)

Some words from Derrick Jensen:

Only 5 percent of native forest still stands in the continental United
States. 440,000 miles of logging roads run through National Forests alone.
(The Forest Service claims there are "only" 383,000 miles, but the Forest
Service routinely lies, keeping double books--a private set showing actual
clearcuts, and a public set showing some of the same acres as old growth--
misleading the public by labeling clearcuts "temporary meadows," reducing
the stated costs of logging roads by amortizing them over a thousand
years, and so on). That's more road than the Interstate Highway System,
enough road to drive from Washington, DC, to San Francisco a hundred and
fifty times. Only God and the trees themselves know how many miles of
roads fragment the forests.

http://www.derrickjensen.org/slw.html

Thanks everyone!

-Nathan, EF!Dgo