Please Forward to Your Tree Hugger friends

THREATENED 
(by pending new logging rules)


Huge old growth, and...
...Deep, deep forest
...some of the last remaining old-growth stands of cedar, spruce, and hemlock on Earth.

Why? So that ancient timber can be harvested by the lumber industry. It will be sawn into immaculate, knot free, straight-grained, super expensive boards and beams. Where will they be used? Super expensive mansions and commercial buildings, of course. The  profit from this process (super, of course)? Nearly all will go to the executives and stockholders of the large timber companies.

It's a twofer! We can do irreparable damage to one of the last great temperate forests AND worsen the wealth disparities in the world. Can't get much worse than that, IMHO.

This is all happening at The 17-million-acre Tongass National Forest, located along the coast of southeastern Alaska....WAY UP THERE WHERE SONNY PERDUE (and our Prez) THINK WE WON'T NOTICE.  (Snarf, snarf)

The Pew Trusts noticed. Here's the stunning article.  

I just read it. Yay! I thought. Now we can all make a "public comment" before these new rules go into effect, pointing out how insane this "gift" to the timber industry really is.

W r o n g.  I Googled around to find the place for public comments, found it in the Federal Register and read this:    "Comments must be received in writing by October 15, 2018."

Darn, I must have forgotten to read my daily Federal Register that day.

Did YOU know about this new rule change? Did you know you could comment? Did you know Oct 15 was your last chance? Who's fault is this? Maybe the "Distractor-in-chief?"

Letters to Reps and Senators seems like the last chance to rail and shout about this corrosive pathway The Department of the Interior is taking. Ask anybody who's a tree hugger to get out the quill and ink and blast a good one toward D.C.


Pew article [[I truly admire and trust the Pew Trusts. Their public surveying research is usually bullet-proof.]]
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