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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.  

'Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them? ~ Abraham Lincoln

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

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Check the last two election cycles and you will see that all of the sutherland money was "donated" through timber companies in a quid pro quo basis.  A rocket scientist isn't needed to see this one, but maybe if we can get a Molecular Biologist and Rancher into the office, we would be able to see these things better.  

by ex dnr and loving it on Sun Nov 02, 2008 at 08:29:03 PM PST

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