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September 26, 2003
Lumber prices, Iraq reconstruction and tree huggers
This is interesting - the Warren Times Observer reported today that the rising cost of plywood is largely due to the reconstruction of Iraq.
What is funny, is that Harold Cornish, owner of Cornish Lumber Company places the blame, in part, on "tree huggers":
"They've got our national forest around here in the best shape it's been in in years, and now a few tree huggers want to screw the whole thing up. Timber is like a garden. When it needs to be cut, it should be cut and let the new come up," Cornish said.
This is such a shameless attempt to increase access to the Allegheny National Forest for logging. The whole 'timber is like a garden' mentality is so old and obviously not based on sound ecological science it's hard to believe anyone would suggest it as legitimate. The paper should of contacted someone, preferrably the 'tree huggers' getting attacked, for a rebuttal instead of presenting to the public a completely one-sided story.
Posted by Ryan at September 26, 2003 04:29 PM
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