WATCH: Obama Allows Logging in Largest US Rainforest - Think of All the Jobs!

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[roudy]

And so the third term of the bush administration continues full throttle.

[clearthinker89]

Liberals don't know the first thing about logging. Even selective clear cutting can be good for the ecosystem, benefitting native animals and leading to new growth, which produces more oxygen and consumes much more CO2 than old growth. Slective cutting can be done now with extreme care and little or no imact to the rest of the forest. Get over it.

[Stormboy]

Is selective clear-cutting like selective genocide?
I understand that thinning new growth can allow healthier forests, but that's not clear-cutting. "Selective clear-cutting" is an oxymoron.
I don't think this is about thinning for health, it's about clear-cutting for short-term profit, leaving ecosystems stripped and exposed to erosion, uninhabitable for years and damaging to downstream habitats.

[clearthinker89]

Again, you're wrong. It is possible to selectively clear cut a small portion of forest, in comparison to larger tracts of land. Creating a clearing like that produces undergrowth, room for new trees to grow well and a variety of other things that attract animals, new plants and activity - the same principle of an underwater reef. What you may not realize is that forestry has evolved to the point where this can be done along with thinning to improve the overall health of the forest and encourage growth of animal and plant life all around. We're much better stewards of the forest now than colonial ancestors and native Americans, who decimated forests without the benefit of science to produce sustaiinable growth.

[HollyGoesLightly]

The west has too many views as it is.
So, gentlemen, start your saws.
And thanks to Oklahoma Senator Coburn's thoughtfulness, you can carry loaded guns---the main purpose for which is to kill a mockibird.

[Lynnce]

Thats very sad to think the animals that will be displaced and the ruining of one of natures most wonderful places to visit in the world. Greed it knows no boundries. How does that fit in with the rhetoric of global warming. Sorta the reverse of that belief. Isn't politics evil.

[Lavina]

Lee Camp, that is great. Environmentalism creates more jobs than logging, while logging is done, and, of course, after the trees are gone, there will be no jobs. This is why I voted for Ralph Nader. As it is, corporations, who seem to have no sense of reality, concerning our future, are controlling everything. Wake up, America !!!!!!

[cartunes]

Take that you green transparency " free " medicine tax loving liberal Americans, the banks that put him in office probably own the land. But he inst worried because when he is finished he is moving to France.

[ignoranceequalsfear]

Well you sure told us, you did!
I'm just stewing in my own juices, after that clever zinger.

And France, what a horrendous place! I bet you've been there many times and really understand their government, quality of life, exact benefits from their taxation, and overall satisfaction with their health care system. I mean, people who make such comments are ALWAYS so well informed and educated about all sides of issues.

Growing up might be something to seriously consider....

[doodlebug2]

Obama, McCain, Bush, the next pres will do the same, it is inevitable.$$$

[Gunga-Din]

Change?

[Ronp]

I usually don't resort to this, but couldn't resist in this case. If a tree falls in the Tongass Rainforest and all the laborers are on unemployment, will it make a sound, or better yet will Sarah Palin become enlightened?

[Julietjeske]

Child Lumberjacks!!!!! YIPPIE!!!! Because those tiny little hands can really get around those chainsaws and go crazy!!!!