Subject: Don Baccus' abuse/ Dale Goble's Response
Date: Feb 26 09:31:00 1996
From: Pezeshki Chuck - pezeshki at mme.wsu.edu


Dear Tweet-Folks,

I would like to second what Dale Goble said in his posting regarding the
implications of "rural folks know best" logic strand.

What I have found is that often neither rural nor city folks know best for
the resource. It is the informed party that knows best, and sometimes that
is rural folks, and sometimes the other way around.

I have been watching tweeters for about a month now, and I have found the
tone of some of the discussions disturbing, in the sense that I feel that
many tweeters participants don't realize the devastation that has occurred in
the Cascades, and is now headed for the last parts of Idaho. People feel
like they need to justify "getting up on their soapbox" and the like. I
guess that I feel more people need to go get up on their soapbox, and they
need to do it darn quick.

I visited the Olympic peninsula two years ago, and stood outside Forks
looking east towards the park. I saw the bathtub ring around the park
boundary, and stared across multiple-square mile clearcuts and cried. The
way I see it, the ecological Holocaust is going on NOW, and the timber
industry only needs a few more years of obfuscation before the end fate is
sealed.

What will the world be like when all the big trees are gone? What will
happen to our feathered friends? Can we, concerned citizens, get to the
point where we acknowledge the level of destruction, our own personal failure
to stop it, and the need to rally this year in the political arena to make
our concerns heard? I can tell you that it's going to take more than taking
a logger birding.

Chuck Pezeshki
pezeshki at mme.wsu.edu