Reply #43: There's lots of trees.

[Gregorian]

But this was said in Humboldt county, just after Bush was placed in office, and the trees were just starting to come down. By trees I mean old growth redwoods. 8 foot diameter ancients that were a thousand years old. This was said by a woman who has a store in a small town. And the store is situated on a corner where the trucks would come zooming by on the way to the mill. I thought they had stopped logging old growth redwoods, since there are only about 1% of them left. But thank Bush, they started again. And to think they called it Healthy Forests. Bullshit. This was the hardest thing I've ever had to watch. Not the typical truck with ten trees on it. One huge tree per truck. Not unlike seeing the harpooning of a whale.

I said there were only one percent of the trees left. And she said, "There's lots of trees". This is a conservative family owned store. They are multifaceted. They also branch out into land subdivision kinds of shit. Really awful, but friendly, people.

Lots of trees. Not any more. I was highly offended. Little did I know, the worst was yet to come.