Debate Over Owls and Timber in Northwest
The Times should be commended for your editorial. While you still seem to indicate that individual species of wildlife are expendable and fail to see the link between creature and habitat, your stand on old-growth forests is refreshing.
Franklin Roosevelt’s observation that Europe treats logging as “farming” while the U.S. thinks of it as “mining” still goes unheeded by the U.S. Forest Service and Interior Secretary Manuel Lujan. They still see themselves as swap-meet salesmen rather than caretakers.
We must continue to oppose all efforts by our “environmental” President to gut the Endangered Species Act.
RICHARD DUNKERLY
Whittier
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