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- Subscribe - Contact Us - Rate Card - Place an Ad Archives Revels Classifieds Real Estate Menu Guide Wedding Weather Subscribe Contact Us March 23, 2005 Nothing pro about this logging I am pro logging. I am also pro environment. The two are not necessarily mutually exclusive. The Fiddler Mountain timber sale and the majority of the U.S. Forest Service administration's plan for logging the Biscuit Fire area will neither benefit the timber industry, our environment, nor the economy of southern Oregon. It has sent a knife between neighbors and contributed to the problems of a community with enough dilemmas already. The Fiddler Mountain area lies within one of the "Late Successional Reserves," basically old-growth groves that were designated by the Forest Service themselves to remain relatively untouched for the health of the ecosystem. By logging it, they violate their own guidelines of what's best for the forest. The timber sale was granted to a company with a record of violating guidelines and boundaries, a slap in the face to the hard-working loggers who care about the resource that sustains them, and the public at large who are being robbed by such activity. The economy of this area will depend largely on tourism, and to a lesser extent logging. Tourists will not be drawn by clearcuts of former "Late Successional Reserves." Apparently the Forest Service administrators now consider the term "Late" to mean "deceased." Tom Siewert Cave Junction Stop logging so courts can rule Logging the Biscuit must stop immediately. The public has been misled in to thinking that the area became a wasteland since the fire and that logging prevents fires. But life is still abundant and fire is a natural process. I have been to areas after they have been logged and I've seen a total disregard for the land. Roads are made right through creeks and slash is left everywhere, creating a bigger fire threat. Liquidation of forest resources for immediate profit is an appalling practice and does not benefit the public. People come from all around the world to experience the beauty of the Oregon wilderness and see animals in their natural habitat, so why are we letting them destroy it? I am not anti-logger; I would like to see people employed by sustainable means. It is possible to ethically harvest timber. We can keep people employed and stop deforestation without cutting old growth or building roads in wilderness areas. This isn't a battle between "us and them." We can work together. Protecting communities from fire, planting trees and restoring our forests is of benefit to everyone. Dana Rose Rogue River Logging crushes local forest The Forest Service's "Biscuit Fire Recovery Project" is a dangerous mistake. Logging this area will dirty beautiful pristine rivers, compromise salmon habitat, devastate many rare species of plants, infect uninfected areas of forest with a highly contagious tree root rot, tear up the fragile soil and steep hillsides, and compromise the economic base of the area which depends on visitors hungry for this wilderness. It should remain wild. The logging needs to be stopped now! Not another logging truck should enter the area until the court case is decided. Blessings on the folks doing everything they can to protect this forest land. You can help too. Siskiyou Project: 541-592-4459, www.siskiyou.org or Klamath Siskiyou Wild, www.kswild.org. Consider the next generations. Jem Mara Murphy Pugh reminds us of 'our town' For those of us who have lived in Ashland more than a quarter century, it is refreshing to read Lance Pugh's nostalgic recounting of events that predate what prevails today. The new Ashlanders are so busy congratulating themselves on the fact that they have "found" Ashland, they lose sight of what it was that attracted them in the first place: The town we knew and loved. The place that was a "town," not a glorified Carmel of galleries, boutiques and restaurant after restaurant. Maxine Scott Ashland DailyTidings.com Home Page Archives | Revels | Classifieds | Real Estate Guide | Weather | Subscribe | Contact Us Copyright 2005 Ashland Daily Tidings and Ottaway Newspapers All Rights Reserved Deep Muscle Stimulator Ceramic Piggy Banks FREE Entertainment Guide Women's & Men's Slippers Accelerate Weightloss Products Backpacks Online Pharmacy Vegas Travel Guide Search Engine Optimization Student Loans Hotel & Airline Reservations Hammocks Water Filter Helzberg Diamonds Online Casinos Community Bonus Casino Mortgage Calculator Security Systems Mailing Lists Click Here Advertisement .:Advertisements:. Site Search: RESOURCES - Mail Tribune News - ODOT Road Cams