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slowp

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Much to the surprise of the current residents, the Seattle area once grew big trees. So announced the Seattle Times this morning. I am about to start an environmental organization called, Friends Of Seattle. We'll lobby for the ripping up of pavement, tearing down of buildings, and the restoration of the once magnificent pristine Seattle Forest. The residents who lose their jobs will find work in the tourism industry that the restoration will support.

Restless Native | Giant logged long ago but not forgotten | Seattle Times Newspaper
 
slowp said:
Much to the surprise of the current residents, the Seattle area once grew big trees. So announced the Seattle Times this morning. I am about to start an environmental organization called, Friends Of Seattle. We'll lobby for the ripping up of pavement, tearing down of buildings, and the restoration of the once magnificent pristine Seattle Forest. The residents who lose their jobs will find work in the tourism industry that the restoration will support.

Restless Native | Giant logged long ago but not forgotten | Seattle Times Newspaper
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what kind of tourism industry are you talking about? If the development is torn down and everything reverts back to forest, a guide would be about as helpful and necessary as a walmart greeter. And there's a limited market for handmade dreamcatchers.
 
It's already all they can do to keep it from reverting back to forest. Dose the water supply, sedate the masses, and it'll be forest soon enough.
 
audible fart said:
what kind of tourism industry are you talking about? If the development is torn down and everything reverts back to forest, a guide would be about as helpful and necessary as a walmart greeter. And there's a limited market for handmade dreamcatchers.
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Well then, they can just move to somewhere else and find a job. Things change and people have to change with it. :laugh:

(this is a play on what happened to the timber towns. We were told we could switch from timber jobs to tourist jobs or move away. Bigskyjake gets it. )
 
slowp said:
Well then, they can just move to somewhere else and find a job. Things change and people have to change with it. :laugh:

(this is a play on what happened to the timber towns. We were told we could switch from timber jobs to tourist jobs or move away. Bigskyjake gets it. )
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Yep! Awesome, I'll join! Can we start a Vancouver, BC chapter too?! Love it!
 
slowp said:
Well then, they can just move to somewhere else and find a job. Things change and people have to change with it. :laugh:

(this is a play on what happened to the timber towns. We were told we could switch from timber jobs to tourist jobs or move away. Bigskyjake gets it. )
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Yup...we've all heard that before. We heard it in Fortuna, Arcata, Eureka, Covelo, Elk Creek, Hayfork, Happy Camp, Hyampom, Yreka, Mt. Shasta, Redding, Anderson, Red Bluff, Marysville, Oroville, Crescent Mills, Greenville, Susanville, Loyalton, Sloat, Camino, and a few others. Quite a few, actually. These are just the ones I can remember quickly...there's more.

Somehow I don't think there's enough tourists, and tourist jobs, to replace the mill and logging jobs that these towns lost.




Edit...sorry for the highjack....it's just been that kind of day.
 
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OK, read the article, now I'm just mad!!! So tired of these bleeding hearts. What the hell did he think?! That people just wandered in out of the primordial ooze to find Seattle fully developed?! Complete with the fish mongers at Pike Place?!!
 
coastalfaller said:
OK, read the article, now I'm just mad!!! So tired of these bleeding hearts. What the hell did he think?! That people just wandered in out of the primordial ooze to find Seattle fully developed?! Complete with the fish mongers at Pike Place?!!
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Probably. Next he'll report that they sluiced several hillsides into Elliot Bay so they could build on them. After they took the "forest giants" off them. Also loved the reference to the Portland hippie. The "lifelong outdoorsman".
 
madhatte said:
Errr... WHICH Seattle?
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The original one, of course. After tearing down all the man made stuff, we can start hauling all the debris from the yearly slides that occur on our forest roads. Maybe use Boeing as a temporary storage area for the hauled waste. We'll rebuild the hills, get trees going, and bring in wildlife. Problem grizzlies can be relocated there. We'll declare it wilderness when we're done, and the Park Service can have it. It will be our new playground!!
 
slowp said:
The original one, of course. After tearing down all the man made stuff, we can start hauling all the debris from the yearly slides that occur on our forest roads. Maybe use Boeing as a temporary storage area for the hauled waste. We'll rebuild the hills, get trees going, and bring in wildlife. Problem grizzlies can be relocated there. We'll declare it wilderness when we're done, and the Park Service can have it. It will be our new playground!!
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It's all coming together, I like it!!
 
slowp said:
The original one, of course. After tearing down all the man made stuff, we can start hauling all the debris from the yearly slides that occur on our forest roads. Maybe use Boeing as a temporary storage area for the hauled waste. We'll rebuild the hills, get trees going, and bring in wildlife. Problem grizzlies can be relocated there. We'll declare it wilderness when we're done, and the Park Service can have it. It will be our new playground!!
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the I-5, will it be underground, like the French Chunnel, or just overhead ? :)
 
lfnh said:
the I-5, will it be underground, like the French Chunnel, or just overhead ? :)
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Well, if we restore Vancouver, BC too, we really shouldn't need it. Perhaps we should make hwy 97 a bit wider, including the Oregon section, and then Les Schwab would have a better shipping route. The skiing is good that way too. :msp_smile:

We'll have more ferries running between Pt. Angeles and Victoria. How about that?
 
slowp said:
Well, if we restore Vancouver, BC too, we really shouldn't need it. Perhaps we should make hwy 97 a bit wider, including the Oregon section, and then Les Schwab would have a better shipping route. The skiing is good that way too. :msp_smile:

We'll have more ferries running between Pt. Angeles and Victoria. How about that?
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noooo, hwy 97 and 26 need to revert to gravel and plenty fine brown dust :)

madhatte said:
Look at it this way: no I-5, no traffic jams. Everybody wins!
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now we're talkin. just a narrow stock trail north to Alaska. :laugh:
 

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