I love wood. I love fine homes made of wood. I love fine furnature. I adore Northwest Coast Naive Art. But, I hate Republicans. How do I mix the these things? Here is a tiny sotry... that leads to an awful news item....
I was flying with friends to Alaska. There were five in my plane and about the same in the other. On our left was Vancouver Island - one of my favorite places to fish for salmon when the sun never sets. On my right was the main land of Canada. Just out of sight of B.C., huge lumber companies pinch in the coves of the continent. The forests up north are shaved as if by bad barbers and the cut lumber floats in choked rivers. What drifts and hugs the coastline, south to my favorite fishing grounds, is a dark haze of cut tree mulch which blends into a brown haze of algae- red tide. The lumber industry does damage to more then to land environments. And Canada is perched to give the Bush Administration 450 million dollars - passing the Congress (well, those toads ....)and the US Treasurey... Where will it go???
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