From: balistic@yabbs
To: dmonger@yabbs
Subject: re: spotted owl
Date: Wed Aug 10 20:31:53 1994

the reason I brought up the k-mart sign is that the environmentalists were 
saying that spotted owls could live nowhere but in old growth....but they 
were wrong.  There's even an owl living in a tree in the middle of a 
logging camp.  The loggers (I'm a lumberjack and I'm okay...:)) feed the 
the owl by hand!!!  My point is that animals can adapt to new surroundings 
just as we can, hundreds of thousands of people depend on the logging 
inddustry, we can't just abruptly stop it.  I do believe that 
clear-cutting is wrong and we should limit ourselves to taking only as 
many trees as we need.  I also believe that within the next hundred years 
humans won't even need wood anymore...we are already beginning to phase 
away from wood.  Just look at how many trees I saved by sending this 
message by email, rather than snail mail.  I see the light at the end of 
the tunnel. . . .

balistic