Smokey the Log promotes the Bush/Cheney agenda

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On Wed, 15 Sep 2004, ryan griffis wrote:

> September 16, 2004
> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
>
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> OREGON WILDERNESS PLAN EXEMPLIFIES BEST OF BUSH POLICY
> Senator's bravery in the face of public opinion earns him award; new
> Forest Service mascot unveiled
>
> The Bush campaign is awarding its first annual "Healthy Forestry"
> award to Senator Gordon Smith, R-OR, for finding a way to convert
> 19,000 acres of prized wilderness into a highly valuable tree farm.
>
> Converting the partially burnt Siskiyou "roadless areas" to tree
> farming, despite 70% public opposition to "old growth" logging, will
> mean not only the creation of several dozen temporary jobs, but also
> will guarantee that the area will never again be subject to "old
> growth" and "roadless" restrictions, and will remain forever open to
> logging regardless of public opinion.
>
> Sen. Smith has announced that to make this happen, he will attach a
> "rider" to a disaster relief or other "must pass" Senate bill,
> requiring that the Siskiyou area be logged immediately and replanted
> with thousands of timber trees, bypassing Nature's slow,
> inefficient, and unprofitable process of recovery. The rider will
> also stipulate that it "shall not be subject to judicial review by
> any court of the United States"–preventing ecoterrorists from using
> the courts to interfere with the health of the forestry industry.
>
> Even some ecoterrorists acknowledge that burnt old-growth trees can
> be hazardous to wildlife, as their rotting limbs can easily fall on
> innocent elk or deer. But the agreement ends there. By stubbornly
> refusing to let burnt old-growth forests build jobs, ecoterrorists
> have made it increasingly difficult for the forestry industry to turn
> a profit from America's last few bits of nonproductive landscape.
>
> Sen. Smith was inspired in devising his rider by the earlier, 1995
> "salvage rider," which for one year allowed virtually unregulated
> logging to occur on wilderness lands throughout the Pacific Northwest.
>
> By again moving the issue from the recalcitrant local level to the
> Republican-controlled Senate, Sen. Smith's rider suggests a way to
> bypass such opposition in a more permanent way. Following his
> example, we must devise a "rider" that will open not just one region,
> but the entire federally-controlled National Parks System, for
> selective logging use.
>
> The amount of useful acreage in Yellowstone and Yosemite alone, for
> example, would more than equal the contested areas of the Siskiyou.
> Such forests aren't quite as valuable to either the timber industry
> or to ecologists as those in the Siskiyou, but logging our National
> Parks would mean replacing many smaller, time-consuming local battles
> with one bigger one more likely to be won.
>
> To popularize this idea, the Bush campaign has unveiled a new mascot
> for the USDA Forest Service: Smokey the Log. Smokey the Log is a
> replacement for Smokey the Bear, as bears have no use and are
> therefore not appropriate in the modern forest-use context. On a
> recent canvassing tour, Smokey the Log collected numerous signatures
> in favor of logging our National Parks
> (http://www.CheneyBush.com/smokey/petition/), and received
> endorsements from Congressional Candidate Jim Feldkamp
> (http://www.CheneyBush.com/smokey/feldkamp/) and former Oregon
> governor Victor G. Atiyeh (http://www.CheneyBush.com/smokey/atiyeh/).
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take a look at the "plain clothes" representative!
http://www.CheneyBush.com/smokey/atiyeh/
look familiar?
http://www.theyesmen.org/hijinks/bush/blog.shtml#mostrecent

On Sep 15, 2004, at 6:33 PM, Joy Garnett wrote:

> I want these people out of my inbox though – no?

omg – I should never A my email so late at night!

j



On Thu, 16 Sep 2004, ryan griffis wrote:

> take a look at the "plain clothes" representative!
> http://www.CheneyBush.com/smokey/atiyeh/
> look familiar?
> http://www.theyesmen.org/hijinks/bush/blog.shtml#mostrecent
>
> On Sep 15, 2004, at 6:33 PM, Joy Garnett wrote:
>
>> I want these people out of my inbox though – no?
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