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DuaneBidoux (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-16-09 05:17 PM Original message |
Limits on Logging in Old-Growth Forest Reinstated (had to post after Tongass thread) |
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Uncle Joe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-16-09 05:28 PM Response to Original message |
1. This is good but we're still losing ground by taking one step forward for every two back with each |
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lindisfarne (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-16-09 05:30 PM Response to Reply #1 |
2. Trees have essentially run out, if we want to keep the tiny amount of old growth forest remainingfor |
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Grinchie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-16-09 07:08 PM Response to Reply #1 |
8. On No, connecting two related things is not in the best interest of Big Timber. |
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xochi (191 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-16-09 05:37 PM Response to Original message |
3. Thanks so much for posting this! |
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nosmokes (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-16-09 05:53 PM Response to Original message |
4. Virgin forests cannot be replaced.Opening Tongass is inexcusable. |
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Robb (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-16-09 07:31 PM Response to Reply #4 |
11. The irony abounds. First, Tongass has already been "opened." |
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nosmokes (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-16-09 08:27 PM Response to Reply #11 |
13. RE:Opening the Tongass |
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Robb (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-17-09 08:41 AM Response to Reply #13 |
17. And the "slippery slope" argument is the only one I've seen |
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Arkansas Granny (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-17-09 09:01 AM Response to Reply #11 |
18. If 70% of the old growth has been logged, that convinces me even more strongly |
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villager (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-16-09 06:00 PM Response to Original message |
5. reinstating a Clinton-era "compromise" isn't going to cut it |
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Grinchie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-16-09 06:06 PM Response to Original message |
6. More token damage control as Obama loses another big chunk of his base |
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mike_c (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-16-09 06:38 PM Response to Original message |
7. one step sideways and ten steps backward.... |
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TankLV (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-16-09 07:13 PM Response to Original message |
9. THANK YOU! |
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FLAprogressive (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-16-09 07:17 PM Response to Original message |
10. Unrec, just another token move to silence people much like the LGBT "benefits" order |
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SpartanDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-17-09 02:14 PM Response to Reply #10 |
28. 2.6 million acres is a token move? |
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sandnsea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-16-09 08:19 PM Response to Original message |
12. I live in Western Oregon. I'll take it n/t |
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hollowdweller (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-16-09 08:58 PM Response to Original message |
14. Logging on public land depresses prices private landowners get for their timber |
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Robb (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-17-09 09:52 AM Response to Reply #14 |
21. An excellent point no one else has made. nt |
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earth mom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-16-09 10:00 PM Response to Original message |
15. Bullshit! This is NOT OK! Obama is allowing old growth logging in Alaska instead. |
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Robb (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-17-09 08:40 AM Response to Reply #15 |
16. No. |
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SpartanDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-17-09 09:27 AM Response to Original message |
19. So he adds protection for 2.6 million acres, allows logging in 381 |
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Robb (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-17-09 09:51 AM Response to Reply #19 |
20. Yep. Welcome to DU. nt |
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snooper2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-17-09 10:20 AM Response to Original message |
22. .002% is being allowed to be cut in Tongass- |
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central scrutinizer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-17-09 11:10 AM Response to Original message |
23. Feds throw back the WOPR |
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Hassin Bin Sober (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-17-09 11:10 AM Response to Reply #23 |
24. They'll be sorry..... |
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Coventina (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-17-09 11:10 AM Response to Reply #24 |
26. Great minds think alike! n/t |
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Coventina (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-17-09 11:10 AM Response to Reply #23 |
25. Darn! I thought this was going to be about "Wargames"! |
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Cronopio (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-17-09 11:10 AM Response to Reply #23 |
27. Sometimes the winning move is not to play. nt |
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