Date:         Fri, 25 Feb 2000 23:30:02 -0800
Reply-To:     Mike Miller <mwm@LANSET.COM>
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From:         Mike Miller <mwm@LANSET.COM>
Subject:      Re: environ"mental"ism !
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It's still Friday [barely] where I am so here goes.

Don't know much about strip mining but maybe someone can tell us if it can
be done without ending up with a moonscape.

But as for clear cutting.  I was told by a Forestry guy [from Humbolt State,
a state college in California that's big on forestry stuff] that some trees
almost have to be clear cut.  The example given was Redwoods, a very touchy
subject in California.  Apparently these trees make their own environment so
if you selective cut, there aren't enough left to keep the climate they need
and they slowly die out.

So with some trees you got the choice, cut them all in certain areas, or cut
none.

Actually I vote for none but hardly anyone listens to me.

Mike
Sacramento [home of hot air]

----- Original Message -----
From: Bill Johnson <bjohns@DTX.NET>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Friday, February 25, 2000 6:20 PM
Subject: Re: environ"mental"ism !


> I am a retired military man.  I am a tree hugger and proud of it.  I
believe
> that trees are a crop to be harvested intelligently.  Strip mining and
clear
> cutting are on my no no list.  Anyone here support those things?
>
> Bill
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "LAWS HOME" <backintime@TRITON.NET>
> To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
> Sent: Friday, February 25, 2000 8:14 PM
> Subject: environ"mental"ism !
>
>
> Coyote, please don't put me into that "ism" group! I'm sorry if I came
> across as such, really!  I just feel better about myself if I can beat the
> system somehow, and I like the idea of running bio-diesel from "garbage"
> (sic). I just try to do the best I can with what I have. (which isn't
much)
> I still haven't figured out how someone like myself (4 children) living at
> the annual income that I am (below $30K) can afford to own a Vanagon, I
> guess the Rabbits keep me out of debtors prison! We only use the Vanagon
in
> the summer and fall ( Soccer games, baseball etc.) It's our fairweather
> family transporter. I don't think much of "bunny or tree huggers" If I did
> see one on fire I wouldn't piss on them to put them out! I don't care much
> about any extremists.