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slay Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-14-09 05:35 PM
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15. Fuck loggers. If they can't find a better way to survive than by killing
all our trees then our govenment needs to stop them. Have yall ever watched that Ax-Men show? Some of the most horrible, greedy, sick people you'll ever see. They try to come across as "good ol boys" but really come across as mean, unintelligent, land rapers.
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  -State takes 'Ax Men' logs-Illegal Logging Tipped off by History Channel Show RamboLiberal  Mar-14-09 03:00 AM   #0 
  - This reminds me of how old-growth in Seattle's Ravenna Park was lost  Hannah Bell   Mar-14-09 03:50 AM   #1 
  - Logging use to be a good paying job  Thothmes   Mar-14-09 05:32 AM   #2 
     - one of my dad's regrets having only logging as a career option. he broke every  roguevalley   Mar-14-09 05:42 PM   #16 
        - My old man broke several bones over the course of  Thothmes   Mar-15-09 05:49 AM   #41 
  - These were already downed trees  Craftsman   Mar-14-09 05:59 AM   #3 
  - Wonder how many boats ripped open their bottoms on those  Thothmes   Mar-14-09 03:01 PM   #6 
  - Not many...since the Hoquiam is basically only navigable by whitewater kayaks  Squatch   Mar-15-09 05:52 AM   #43 
  - Coarse wood, also known as instream woody material, is critical for instream structure  XemaSab   Mar-14-09 03:38 PM   #9 
  - bureaucracy run amok  ixion   Mar-14-09 06:43 AM   #4 
  - you have a point with the corp give-aways. there's an argument to be  Hannah Bell   Mar-14-09 07:05 AM   #5 
  - You mean the companies  Thothmes   Mar-14-09 03:04 PM   #7 
  - Same companies that deforested West Viginia from 70% to 30% forest cover  tabasco   Mar-14-09 03:29 PM   #8 
     - Logging towns in the West are named after Michigan towns because they stipped the trees  L. Coyote   Mar-14-09 03:44 PM   #11 
     - take a good look at the the georgrapy  Thothmes   Mar-14-09 05:58 PM   #18 
        - I do every day, out the window. I also fly over the region. Clear cutting continues.  L. Coyote   Mar-14-09 11:28 PM   #38 
           - Federal Land or State Land  Thothmes   Mar-15-09 05:50 AM   #42 
              - All lands. Just look in Google Earth.  L. Coyote   Mar-15-09 10:49 AM   #46 
     - The same companies  Thothmes   Mar-14-09 05:56 PM   #17 
        - Thothmes is a shill for the logging industry  slay   Mar-14-09 06:49 PM   #28 
        - I am the one making the big claims about the ecological value of instream woody material  XemaSab   Mar-15-09 12:32 AM   #39 
        - Havent worked in the logging industry since 1964.  Thothmes   Mar-15-09 05:45 AM   #40 
        - Who suggested that?  tabasco   Mar-15-09 12:00 PM   #47 
  - See post #9  Webster Green   Mar-14-09 03:45 PM   #12 
  - People do not yet understand how convoluted the  truedelphi   Mar-14-09 04:04 PM   #13 
  - Nothing goes to waste in nature. n/t  geek tragedy   Mar-14-09 04:14 PM   #14 
  - Aberdeen-based S&S Aqua Logging.  formercia   Mar-14-09 03:41 PM   #10 
  - Good riddance. n/t  lumberjack_jeff   Mar-14-09 06:51 PM   #30 
  - Fuck loggers. If they can't find a better way to survive than by killing  slay   Mar-14-09 05:35 PM   #15 
  - Ya, lets send all of these people to hell  Thothmes   Mar-14-09 06:10 PM   #19 
  - Recycling? Hello?  slay   Mar-14-09 06:30 PM   #21 
     - Your statement was "fuck loggers"  Thothmes   Mar-14-09 06:39 PM   #23 
     - And I stand by that statement - Nazi's had families to support too  slay   Mar-14-09 06:48 PM   #27 
        - Stupid is forever.  Thothmes   Mar-14-09 07:06 PM   #35 
     - Specifically, which natural resources rules do you disagree with?  lumberjack_jeff   Mar-14-09 06:50 PM   #29 
  - So...what's your house made out of?  Squatch   Mar-15-09 05:54 AM   #44 
  - Uh, the guy pulled them from the bottom of a river... they were already down?  RollWithIt   Mar-14-09 06:18 PM   #20 
  - I think this point is either not understood or is being skipped over before  Parker CA   Mar-14-09 06:37 PM   #22 
     - A) they are destroying habitat. B) they are stealing  lumberjack_jeff   Mar-14-09 06:42 PM   #24 
     - The show never made mention of these guys dredging the rivers they work in. It shows them  Parker CA   Mar-14-09 06:47 PM   #26 
        - It's only not comparable because it's not visible. The damage can be inestimably worse.  lumberjack_jeff   Mar-14-09 06:56 PM   #32 
        - Some interesting comments, and I'll definitely follow for a very local  Parker CA   Mar-14-09 07:04 PM   #33 
           - Here's a link to the local paper's article  lumberjack_jeff   Mar-14-09 07:06 PM   #36 
              - Sounds like the owner is facing quite a few charges. Good and informative article.  Parker CA   Mar-14-09 07:20 PM   #37 
        - The Seattle article in the OP makes reference to both the illegality and the environmental impact.  Garbo 2004   Mar-14-09 07:05 PM   #34 
     - As I said above  XemaSab   Mar-14-09 06:43 PM   #25 
     - You'd Think..  RetiredTrotskyite   Mar-15-09 05:59 AM   #45 
  - What they do isn't "logging" it is stealing. n/t  lumberjack_jeff   Mar-14-09 06:51 PM   #31 
  - It was theft, pure and simple, and they knew it - but in this day and age  DeschutesRiver   Mar-15-09 12:59 PM   #48 
 

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