Guest guest Posted December 20, 2003 Report Share Posted December 20, 2003 In a message dated 12/20/2003 10:08:54 AM Pacific Standard Time, butchbsi writes: > We don't have rain forests in the USA WHOA! I know something Butch doesn't, I can't beLIEVE it! ;-) Course having parents in the area helps ;-) Olympic peninsula - there IS a rainforest there... It's not a BIG nor well know rainforest, but it's there... and it's protected. How could they NOT have a rainforest there, all that icky sticky wet stuff, BLECH! Cheers! Kathleen Petrides The Woobey Queen Woobeys: The Loving Touch Therapeutic Pillow http://www.woobeyworld.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 20, 2003 Report Share Posted December 20, 2003 Hey, I resent that. I live among all the icky sticky wet stuff. LOL And yes, there is a rainforest up here.. Karen J In a message dated 12/20/2003 10:08:54 AM Pacific Standard Time, butchbsi writes: > We don't have rain forests in the USA WHOA! I know something Butch doesn't, I can't beLIEVE it! ;-) Course having parents in the area helps ;-) Olympic peninsula - there IS a rainforest there... It's not a BIG nor well know rainforest, but it's there... and it's protected. How could they NOT have a rainforest there, all that icky sticky wet stuff, BLECH! Cheers! Kathleen Petrides The Woobey Queen Woobeys: The Loving Touch Therapeutic Pillow http://www.woobeyworld.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 21, 2003 Report Share Posted December 21, 2003 Hey Kathleen, Butch wrote: > > > but there would still be felling of Rosewood trees. And la asked: > > huh? > > HI, I'll jump in here for a sec... Butch can correct all my wrong > comments! > LOL > > What I'm assuming that Butch means is we're talking 'Rainforest'. It's > being plundered, robbed, raped, destored every day. Yep .. pretty much like all natural resources are .. world-wide. Except for probably the United States .. we are NOT short of forests in the USA. And to cut a tree in the USA we gotta damn near get approval of Congress. We don't have rain forests in the USA .. if we did, harvest would have been curtailed long ago. Like the ban on logging in the Northwest when the Greens won a case based on the pigeon-toed, bug-eyed pissant owl or some critter like that .. Greenies said the loggers were destroying his nesting grounds and the population of pigeon-toed, bug-eyed pissant owls was near extinction. So .. all the work was stopped, folks lost their houses and cars and other things cause they lost their jobs. Then .. they found a whole buncha pigeon-toed, bug-eyed pissant owls nesting here and yonder .. wasn't no shortage of them a'tall .. the little buggers done decided that the forest was not the only place they could live so they went someplace else. I figger there has to be some kind of balance twixt man and nature. We are not creating more nature quicker than we are creating more man with needs for nature's products. So why .. I ask .. are the same folks what wanna protect nature upset if we have a war or two and knock off some of the human critters that are putting all the pressure on nature? ;-p > Even if they weren't taking the rosewood for the oil and for the > wood (which is in and of itself treasured by cabinet makers, > woodworkers, artisans of many types), they would just be a tree in > the way and hacked down for no other reason than the tree is in the > way. Yep .. that's it. Production of Rosewood Oil or harvest of Rosewood is not profitable enough to create such an industry with such magnitude .. it takes multi-millions of dollars in machinery and labor to do what the loggers do in those wilderness areas .. plus they have to build roads to get the products out. So felling of the VERY FEW Rosewood Trees is but a sideline to it all. Rosewood harvest was generally considered to be a labor intensive job of the indigenous Indians of the Amazon region .. and it still is. So try to get them to listen to the Greens if the Greens don't offer them some alternative source of income .. meager as it is now. > Cheers! > Kathleen Petrides > The Woobey Queen > Woobeys: The Loving Touch Therapeutic Pillow > http://www.woobeyworld.com Y'all keep smiling. :-) Butch http://www.AV-AT.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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