Note the use of percentages. I have pointed out to folks that percentages don't mean much. These groups use that tactic. They use that method here. There was talk of increasing the cut in Oregon by 50% which got folks enraged. The cut was so low to begin with, that 50% more wasn't much.
They'll use that, they'll use carefully cropped photos. A favorite technique is to take aerial photos in the winter, when you can't see the new crop of trees growing because the snow covers them. There was an instance of that technique done here. The photo called the area an example of deforestation, I knew that there were saplings growing like mad everywhere but the rocked roads and landings on that unit.
You better get to politicking because that group and the others are well versed in how to shut logging down. They've had practice and success out here. Politicians and judges run the timber programs here.
It is hard to make logging look "pretty" and most folks just don't understand that forests grow out of ugly disturbances. Unless it is a volcano. Then it is wonderful to watch the forest recover and that disturbance is natural, and therefore a good thing. The same goes for fires.
Everybody seems to know more about forests than foresters and folks who have lived and worked in them all their lives. OK, I'm done for now with my rant.
