Dogfish and Herm, When you say that the past is history do you intend for those that participated in damaging actions in the past to have a free pass? Am I not allowed to criticize and be dubious of those people and companies that have caused harm in the past? Especially when many are still active in the forestry industry??? Just because the vast majority of the industry caused innumerable problems with their abusive logging practices right up until the 1990's and were never convicted of any crimes does not mean they get a free pass from me. If it sounds like I'm bitter - that's true. Growing up here, watching log trucks pull up to the Ports and offload logs onto ships, exporting our resources and our jobs while leaving you and I to clean up the mess has given me a hard heart to those that I truly believe to be environmental terrorists.

The Forestry industry has much to prove to me. I hope that the new rules work and that the industry adheres to them. I am reminded of President Reagan's words to Gobrachev. "Trust yet verify"