cuz they're worth more as cheap lumber then anything else gawd durn it

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Feds cut estimated economic worth of recreation in national forests

 

During the Clinton administration, the U.S. Forest Service estimated that by the

year 2000, recreation in national forests would contribute about $111 billion a

year to the American economy. Now the Bush administration has slashed that

estimate by a whopping $100 billion for 2002, down to $11 billion. According to

agency officials, Clinton-era estimates of 800 million visits a year to national

forests were inflated -- instead, they say 2002 saw about 200 million visits.

Conservationists were nonplussed, noting that in 2001 the U.S. Fish and Wildlife

Service estimated birders and wildlife watchers alone spend $38 billion yearly

on equipment and travel. Some fear the feds are gearing their analysis to

justify more mining and logging in national forests. " Would I expect anything

different from the Bush administration? " asked the Wilderness Society's Michael

Francis. " No. They will cook the books for whatever they want. "

 

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/14/AR2005081401103.\

html

 

 

 

 

 

a blinding flash

hotter than the sun

dead bodies lie across the path

the radiation colors the air

finishing one by one

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Of course, the price of gas may cause those numbers to deflate too.fraggle <EBbrewpunx wrote:

Feds cut estimated economic worth of recreation in national forestsDuring the Clinton administration, the U.S. Forest Service estimated that by the year 2000, recreation in national forests would contribute about $111 billion a year to the American economy. Now the Bush administration has slashed that estimate by a whopping $100 billion for 2002, down to $11 billion. According to agency officials, Clinton-era estimates of 800 million visits a year to national forests were inflated -- instead, they say 2002 saw about 200 million visits. Conservationists were nonplussed, noting that in 2001 the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service estimated birders and wildlife watchers alone spend $38 billion yearly on equipment and travel. Some fear the feds are gearing their analysis to justify more mining and logging in national forests. "Would I expect anything different from the Bush

administration?" asked the Wilderness Society's Michael Francis. "No. They will cook the books for whatever they want." http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/14/AR2005081401103.htmla blinding flash hotter than the sun dead bodies lie across the path the radiation colors the airfinishing one by one Jonnie