Rosewood Trees

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Butch Owen <butchbsi

Sat, 20 Dec 2003 20:04:52 -0800

Rosewood Trees

 

 

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, destroyed 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 major 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 .. the 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 men 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? ;-)

 

> 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 a 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

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Y'all keep smiling. :-) Butch http://www.AV-AT.com