Genie: your last paragraph in the posting above makes a lot of sense to me. You appear to have a pretty good handle on the history of the forestry problem and I appreciate your posting your views. I know only what I hear on radio and TV, and what those who live in forest areas say when interviewed. It appears to me, though, that our forests have not been managed well, and I place no blame on any political administration. I simply don't know who is to blame. Someone is though, I think.

I must admit that much of my thinking has to do with policies that have been established where I feel those establishing them care more for hooting or spotted owls or various species of fish, than they do people. So many people in the west have been deprived of making a living because of some endangered species. What about endangered unemployed people?

But I wander from the subject, and since I started this thread, I apologize for doing that.

DougR