BACH meeting at rockridge library

How do people stop deforestation by corporate timber?

Is there an alternative to short term profits and clearcutting, unstable slope logging ((Columbia Helicopter, same corporation that sprays herbicide over the Putomayo rainforest in Columbia in the CIA funded war on Mama Coca and cocaleros)), herbicide spraying, old growth overharvesting, etc., currently practiced by MAXXAM/PL, International Paper, Weyerhauser, Boise-Cascade, Sierra-Pacific, Louisana-Pacific, etc..?

How can ecologists and other concerned scientists communicate to a deaf Bush administration that the above mentioned practices are reducing the quality of forest health for the future generations. We are literally robbing from our grandchildren's oxygen bank to support the billionaire bank acounts of CEOs like Charles Hurwitz and their politician supporters like Bush/Cheney. Workers are out of jobs because rapid harvest clearcut logging replaced potentially sustainable selective logging. The short term gain focus of corporate logging is responsible, yet environmentalists and spotted owls are often blamed as the culprits for unemployment..

Judi Bari realized that the workers of Pacific Lumber were being given a rotten deal after the Maxxam takeover and spoke out for them also. After the steelworkers (lost pension after Maxxam's hostile takeover of Kaiser Steel) came out to visit the treesitters, both workers and environmentalists recognized that the corporate elite under WTO Free Trade agreements now had more power than ever. Today in the face of the hungry jaws of NAFTA, CAFTA, PPP, PNWRTA, and other free trade agreements, local sovereignty is the doormat of corporate profit..

Please help stop corporate timber from continuing deforestation and destruction of the forests..

c u there,

luna moth