[at-l] The Government and The Environment

[shane@theplacewithnoname.com (Shane Steinkamp)]

> Hint:  The lumber companies raped and tortured it.
> What was left simply burned.  The lumber companies
> lost all interest in it.  There was nothing left to harvest.
> Nada.
>
> In the century or so since the state has managed this
> land, it has returned to wilderness.  In many ways, it is
> now wilder than the Whites or the AT corridor in Maine.

Have logging practices and policies governing logging remained the same for
100 years, or have they improved?

I can drive you down through Plaquemines Parish here in Louisiana and show
you hundreds of square miles of dead Cypress trees that were killed when the
Corps of Engineers let too much fresh water into the salt water marsh.  It
is a terribly depressing sight.  I can show you the astonishing coastal
erosion that essentially has been caused by the same thing.  Would such a
thing happen today?  No.  But back then, they didn't know any better...

I don't believe lumber companies are some kind of evil empire, no more than
I believe that the Corps of Engineers is an evil empire.

Shane