Washblog

that is what I often tell people when they ask me where I live.  I tell them I live in Pacific County, the Weyerhauser tree county, not highly populated with people and few towns.  Lewis County, our neighboring county is another Weyerhauser county, short of the I-5 corridor cities.  The video portraying the logging that stripped the hills naked, exposing the 'people' who do populate the county to the huge flooding at the last December hurricane we had tells it's own story.  

Doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure it out once you see the hills stripped bare.  

On the Hwy 101 route from where we live in Pacific County to another neighboring county, Grays Harbor, we see more and more of those hills being logged and stripped bare.  I cry out every time I see a new area logged.  It leaves behind a ragged, bare and desolate place.  

I know the counties have an 'understanding' with Weyerhauser and I know in the past those logged areas were replaced with new tree farm growth.  But something has changed and now it seems like we see more logging, more naked and stripped spaces.  

I had heard or read that President Bush gave permission for more timbering and logging.  Or at least these days whenever we see another freshly logged site, naked, bare, ugly and desolate, I am unkindly reminded of this Presidency, this Administration, and Republican dominated policies that are damaging, life draining and far from life-giving.  

On the Surge in Iraq "--we have set the bar so low it's buried in the sand at this point." - Barack Obama

by Lietta Ruger on Fri Sep 12, 2008 at 11:01:42 AM PST

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