I would like to raise public awareness of a real and present danger to our Sierra Nevada forests, threatening to rapidly increase the rate of destruction far beyond what the forests can ever recover from.
The Bush Administration has announced plans to TRIPLE the logging levels, and focus that logging on bigger Old Growth trees, ruining the delicate and unique ecosystems that have made this mountain range their home since before human history.
This land and the life springing from it is, remember, a National Forest. That means it is owned by the public, not the government. That means you and me, we all own that forest. When private and even foreign logging companies cut down OUR TREES from our land, they then turn around and SELL US OUR OWN TREES BACK TO US for greasy buck, or they sell even more of our trees to other countries for fatter profits.
Bush gets money from the logging companies and the logging companies get money at our expense. All we get out of the deal is a lot of clear-cut mountain wasteland where an ancient, beautiful and thriving forest once stood. We don’t benefit and our forests don’t benefit.
Say goodbye to your clean air, your clean water, your natural parks, your wildlife, your potential cures for disease and the ancient forests you’ve inherited. Say goodbye to your american eagles and purple mountains majesty.
Say goodbye that is, unless we raise our voice in number to protect our forests from Bush’s destructive plans. Head on over to http://environmentcalifornia.org/ add your voice to the growing rumble of Californians not content to let our forests be gutted and left for dead by the greedy hands of industry and government.