Bush Puts Giant Sequoias on the Chopping Block

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Under the guise of forest fire prevention, the Bush Administration's Forest Service has proposed logging in California's Sequoia National Monument, home to some of the world's tallest and oldest trees, reaching ages of 3,200 years or more.<1> Also at risk are the Pacific fisher, the California spotted owl, and many other threatened species dependent on ancient forest habitat.<2>

Established by President Clinton in 2000, the Monument designation was the culmination of years of work by environmentalists. But in its draft environmental impact statement (EIS) for management of the Monument, the Forest Service chose the most environmentally destructive of six alternative management plans, the one calling for the most intensive logging.





March 2, 2004 Greenwatch

BUSH MUST BE DEFEATED.

It will be a crime against humanity. I mean it. We've worked too hard to protect these trees to let them be logged. This is just evil.

:cry: :cry:

This man knows nothing of beauty, appreciates nothing of the earth and all that matters to him is making money and getting reelected or increasing campaign donations so that he has a better chance of getting elected.

raygun said, if you've seen one giant sequoia you've seen them all

james watt, his sec of the interior, said that preserving the environment is irrelevant because we're living in the 'end times'

doesn't the rest of the world have an interest in preserving these trees? maybe a major lawsuit in the world court?

We are the selfish ones and the Pubs lead the way.

It didn't work then, but the BFEE is way more EEEEEEEEEEEEEVIL.

It's "their due."


Cher

by taxpayers!! If that's the case, I suggest we all quit paying our taxes...they can't put everybody in prison.

If Bush wins there will be millions of people who'll be unwilling to give him another dime.

no doubt to the Delight of the Biodiesel advocates who frequent this forum.

This is an excellent way to dispose of these trees, which actually have wood far too soft to make lumber. (Bush wants to cut them to make a point I guess, or else Cheney's signed on to biodiesel.)

Good one!

Sequoia trees are not an oil crop.

Nice try, though.

those of you in that region of the country MUST NOT allow logging to occur there. I wish I could be there too, to stop the "tanks" of American destruction, like the student in Tianneman Square, because this would be a travesty so horrific.

I have been to the Muir Woods one time in my life, and for me it was...the only term would be "a religious experience."

The craven evil that is Bush and his policies...I'm beginning to believe what the fundies say...only they don't realize that they are supporting the anti-Christ.

We cannot allow them to do this! It simply cannot happen.

It's like raping a grandmother.

while we still have some of our incredible gifts from nature left.

bush and the rest of the repugs must be voted out. I know I will be fighting at the state level to vote out all politicians that think the almighty corporate dollar is more important than the environment.

NNadir thanks for fighting for the environment.

JetCityLiberal

Trees give off tons of water. The bigger the tree, the more water released. Take out those trees, and the forest is more likely to burn. These trees and ecosystems that depend on them are world treasures but they aren't being treated as such.