[lit-ideas] Re: Unable to deliver your message
- From: Robert Paul <rpaul@xxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2007 16:53:28 -0700
David wrote
Here we're looking forward and backward simultaneously. In southern
Oregon, Jackson County has closed libraries because the Feds stopped
paying "don't cut trees" subsidies and the locals refused a levy.
Not exactly. There was never a Federal 'don't cut trees' subsidy. The
policy of the Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management has
always been 'selective logging,' whereby every tree is selected and cut.
The money in question, the Secure Rural Schools and Community
Self-Determination Act of 2000, was passed to make up, in part, for
funds lost by counties in Oregon and California which had been sharing,
fairly generously, in the profits from timber cut and sold on Federal
land within those counties. This is usually called 'O & C' money.
However, because timber is getting scarcer and scarcer, that source of
income has dried up. I'm not even sure there is any longer an O & C
Timberlands program.
Since the forests are gone the salmon are gone too, because muddy water
now washes down the logged slopes into the creeks and streams and rivers
and oceans where they once thrived. Never fear though. There's an
infinite number of divine Leibnizian choices behind it all.
Robert Paul,
hugging trees,
somewhere south of Reed College
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