NOT A CLEAR-CUT DECISION
While our hearts go out to the families who have suffered from the demise of logging (“The Death of a Timber Town,” by Paul Shukovsky, Feb. 23), we feel that anger at the spotted owl and environmentalists is gravely misplaced. The loggers should be up in arms that the federal government, crazed by the greed that also affects private industry, allowed the clear-cutting of ancient stands of trees in violation of its own laws.
These loggers believed that the trees “would support them, if not forever, then at least for another generation.” What kind of legacy did they hope to leave their children--a bleak landscape that would no longer support humans, never mind the spotted owl?
Perhaps the good that will come out of this is that the loggers are becoming politically educated and active. But if they use their newfound education and activism only for selfish purposes, they have not really learned who the enemy is. It is greed in all its many forms.
JEANETTE Y. RENEE
GREGORY E. MILLS
Los Angeles
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