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RE: One-sided Report On Timber Transition

By Karen Bradley

 

December 09, 2013
Monday PM


Thanks to Eric Muench for his factual rebuttal to the farcical article published in October by the "Geos Institute" and Mater, Inc. We need to hear more of the "solid" science of the carbon sequestration regarding old growth forests, of which he writes. There is so much environmentally-skewed pseudo-science published, out to confuse the public who has no understanding of the metrics of carbon sequestration.

Shame on Geos, for trying to hoodwink the public with fantasy data and the lure of the "new fad" of biomass as the new 'forest industry'. Biomass fuel conversion, or even just pellet production, could certainly be a valid side-industry for timber production, but it is shameful to waste all the good, beautiful, valuable timber in the Tongass and not build houses and furniture and musical instruments from it, and instead, to rape the forests of Borneo or China for flooring material, bamboo, and teak, with no sustainable forestry safeguards.

Karen Bradley
Ketchikan, Alaska

About: "Married to the Timber Management Officer (TMO) for Ketchikan-Misty-Fjords USFS, who has been trying like heck to get some Timber Harvest Plans completed & approved in this district, against entrenched resistance from USFS staff with no background in Forestry Science. Me: I'm from CA, and worked for a community FireSafe Council for 4 years, to advocate thinning to reduce wildfire threats in our local forest landscape."

Received December 03, 2013 - Published December 09, 2013

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