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Legal Battles over Logging
By Laura Knoy on Sunday, September 21, 2008.
It’s a longtime debate in New Hampshire’s White Mountain National Forest. Loggers say they cut under specific guidelines and that the wood they cut is important to New Hampshire’s economy. But some environmentalists say cutting in roadless areas upsets wildlife as well as tourism. This month a federal court ruled in favor of loggers, but that hasn’t stopped the debate. We’ll find out more.
Guests
- Jasen Stock, Executive Director of the New Hampshire Timberland Owners Association
- Katherine Corkery, New Hampshire Chapter Director of the Sierra Club
We'll also hear from
- Mollie Matteson,Conservation Advocate for the Center for Biological Diversity.
- Don Winsor, Procurement manager for HHP Inc., a multifaceted forest products company located in Henniker.
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I think it is disingenuous of the Sierra Club representative to not truthfully answer that it is the Sierra Club’s position that there should be no logging in any part of a National Forest and not just the roadless areas. I strongly support protecting the woods of NH but I also must admit that I live in a wooden house and it would be hypocritical to oppose logging.
I and anyone else on this board can very well be against logging in this specific area and live in a wooden house, a brick house or concrete structure. This makes no difference.
There is plenty of NH non protected land to log in.
I also live in a wooden house.
It was built one hundred years ago.
My roof is new... built with new wood.
Neither wood came from a roadless NH White Mountain protected National Forest.
Your argument against holding an opposing veiwpoint, while living in a wooden house, is manipulative and suggests poor logic.
We need to leave some of these wilderness areas well enough alone. The long term effect of roads and access is something to be aware of.
NH can make money through logging...in NON protected areas.
Timber! Board Feet! WOW. Humans really have stolen nature and every living thing on earth as their private commodities.
Trees should have their own "STANDING," as homes for the millions of species that inhabit them, depend on them, are protected by them. Trees hold ground water, rejuvenate our air humans make toxic, provide fertile ground upon composting, and places to escape the madness of human manipulation of nature.
It's amazing that humans assume they need to "manage" habitats, "manage" wildlife, or think their "managing" has made the world a safer, better, cleaner place for ALL that live. Our commodity mind-set and arrogancve in thinking we have some God given "right" to manage the environment, has left it in peril, from sea to shining sea, now dying oceans from Co2, dying forests from acid rain. WE ARE THE ONLY REAL INVASIVE SPECIES...
We need to create other products out of hemp, flax, knaff, and leave the trees alone. Nature did JUST FINE before Europeans came here and began our large scale attacks on her and the indigenous people and species that resided here. What a MESS we've made. PLANT TREES, don't cut them!
Did none of you learn about photo-synthesis?