--part1_bf.3a8a3ed.2666849b_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --part1_bf.3a8a3ed.2666849b_boundary Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Return-Path: <[email protected]> Received: from rly-zc03.mx.aol.com (rly-zc03.mail.aol.com [172.31.33.3]) by air-zc03.mail.aol.com (v73.13) with ESMTP; Wed, 31 May 2000 01:49:02 -0400 Received: from lists5.rootsweb.com (lists5.rootsweb.com [63.92.80.123]) by rly-zc03.mx.aol.com (v74.10) with ESMTP; Wed, 31 May 2000 01:48:49 -0400 Received: (from [email protected]) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.10.1/8.10.1) id e4V5maA15008; Tue, 30 May 2000 22:48:36 -0700 Resent-Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 22:48:36 -0700 X-Original-Sender: [email protected] Tue May 30 22:48:35 2000 From: [email protected] Message-ID: <[email protected]> Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 01:48:09 EDT Old-To: [email protected], [email protected] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: AOL 3.0.1 for Mac sub 84 Subject: [BLACK-DUTCH-AMERICA] RAPE OF MOTHER EARTH Resent-Message-ID: <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Resent-From: [email protected] X-Mailing-List: <[email protected]> archive/latest/2115 X-Loop: [email protected] Precedence: list Resent-Sender: [email protected] Rape of Mother Earth - Clear-Cutting of 1.52 million acres of Calf. Redwoods - Tue, 30 May 2000 Clear cutting of a forest is simply and in actuality the rape and murder of tthe earth. It turns what once was a forest that supported lifeforms of various types into a desert, a barren plain. Once done, rains wash away the topsoil destroying any capablity of the land to heal itself or be productive again, the silt chokes the waterways thus killing off the fish and game that need clean water to reproduce or survive and then in the end dumps the silt into the ocean where it chokes the bay's it dumps the silt into. Clear Cutting of a forest is in fact, the most destructive element on earth who's path of death goes much further then simply the killing of the forest. If this gentleman below procedes with his plan to celar cut, the Pacific Salmon and Trout who are already approaching extinction will certianly be unable to reproduce. Water supply's already extremely in short supply will be ruined and many lifeforms, not currently already endangered, will be. Clear cutting is death to us all in the end. imho, ellis === Logging Co. Seeks Tree Plantations The Associated Press May 30 2000 2:18AM ET CAMINO, Calif. (AP) - For the last 20 years, while other logging companies retrenched or relocated, Sierra Pacific Industries quietly grew into the second-largest private landowner in the United States. It owns 1.52 million acres of Northern California, timberland stretching more than 350 miles from Mount Shasta to Yosemite National Park. Last year, Forbes magazine listed company owner Archie Aldis ``Red'' Emmerson as the 161st richest American. The company's days of anonymous expansion are over. Sierra Pacific plans to convert much of its land into tree plantations over the next century or so, angering environmentalists and property owners. The plan would abandon the industry's practice of going into forests and selectively cutting the best trees for lumber. Instead, the company plans to clear-cut much of the timber, meaning large tracts would be felled, and plant new trees ``plantation style.'' There have already been protests. ``The public doesn't want to see large-scale logging on public land,'' said Scott Hoffman Black, director of the Sierra Nevada Forest Protection Campaign. ``They're making up for it by overharvesting on their private land.'' State forestry officials say Sierra Pacific's clear-cutting grew 156 percent, or 14,514 acres, from 1998 to '99. Acreage clear-cut rose from 943 acres in 1992 to 23,823 acres last year. State logging regulators are concerned about the new plan and have increased monitoring, California Department of Forestry spokesman Louis Blumberg said. That said, clear-cutting is not necessarily worse than the selective logging that prevailed in the Sierra Nevada for decades, Blumberg said. ``The public doesn't like clear-cutting because of the way it looks,'' Blumberg said. ''(But) with clear-cutting, the impact happens once and the land recovers. With selective cutting, you keep going back and back.'' Sierra Pacific maintains it has no choice but to cut down much of its timber and start over. Emmerson declined to be interviewed, but company foresters say a century of selective cutting by logging companies has emptied the forests of good timber. Bold steps are nothing new for the 71-year-old Emmerson. Sensing a changing political climate that would make it tougher to log on public land, Emmerson in 1987 risked his company's future to buy 522,000 acres of railroad timber for $460 million. He put all 10 of his lumber mills up as collateral and bought enough land to make him the state's largest timberland owner. Then, as old-growth timber from national forests grew scarcer during the '90s, Emmerson retooled his mills to handle the smaller trees that come from younger forests. He built new mills and installed new and automated equipment across the company. At the Camino plant, three-dimensional scanners determine how to get the most valuable wood from each tree before the first robot-operated, laser-guided sawblade bites into a log. Waste woodshavings that used to be disposed of now produce electricity and steam for the company's computerized wood-drying kilns. The company's efficiency draws grudging admiration from critics such as Felice Pace of the Klamath Forest Alliance. ``I have a tremendous amount of respect for this company - not admiration, respect - because they're very effective,'' he said. ``Rather than maximize the amount of wood that comes out of the log ... they maximize the amount of money that comes out of the log.'' Sierra Pacific also started manufacturing more sophisticated wood products such as moldings, door and window parts. The four plants where they are produced account for a third of its sales and jobs. Although mills once operated by hundreds of employees now run with only a handful, the company's overall employment has increased from 2,400 to 3,500 over the last decade. Today the company is negotiating a land swap that environmentalists hope will prevent logging on Sierra Pacific land near a popular hiking and camping area along the South Yuba River. And the company has also had to adjust to California logging laws that are stricter than those in other states. Critics say the company has done its best to bend those rules or in some cases get around them. It has been cited by the U.S. Forest Service three times since 1995 for illegally removing government timber. The company blames contract loggers for what it acknowledges were mistakes, in some cases reported by Sierra Pacific itself. ``Yes, they turned themselves in, and yes, they paid a fine - but we've lost those trees,'' said Charlotte Fox of the Government Accountability Project, a Washington, D.C.-based environmental group. ``It's kind of like, 'We're going to cut down anything we want and then we'll pay you for it.''' In a plantation system, modern methods can substantially raise per-acre timber production, company officials say. Those methods include culling trees to precise spacing, using healthier, genetically selected trees and applying herbicides to thin competition that might stunt saplings' growth, similar to growing plants in a garden. ``I've been accused of cut-and-run, but really we're cutting less than we're growing so we can build our inventory to sustain ourselves,'' said Tim Feller, a Sierra Pacific district manager. --- On the Net: http://www.sierrapacificind.com Government Accountability Project: http://www.whistleblower.org California forestry department: http://www.fire.ca.gov ============================== Free Web space. ANY amount. ANY subject. RootsWeb's Freepages put you in touch with millions. http://cgi.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/acctform.cgi --part1_bf.3a8a3ed.2666849b_boundary--