cupo,

All autos burn oil. Every one.

Sometimes, incremental change isn't good enough. I agree that it is the best way to address forestry/fish management techniques, but in some cases incremental change translates to foot-dragging.

For instance, the Monsanto Corp. manufactured PCB's for a variety of uses in Alabama. When the US gov't discovered that PCB's were a carginogen, and outlawed their production Monsanto continued manufacturing and dumping them for another 15 years. The people living in the area measure astoundingly high in PCB concentrations.

Yet the EPA warned no one. Why? Because the government thought Monsanto was making incremental changes in the way the handled and disposed of PCB's. Even a realist can see that this is wrong. Things should have been changed immediately.


OK, then on the forestry issue. I think that timber companies have done an admirable job of making their land salmon-friendly. You don't see the things in the woods you used to see when I was a kid. Logging has visibly less impact on the area than it used to. It is obvious to me that timber companies are moving in the right direction .

As far as their past sins, people must remeber that they're looking back on 1970's and 80's logging practices through 2003 eyes. I don't think anyone was aware at the time what was being done to our future fisheries. Hell, back then WE were whacking natives and thinking it was cool.

The damage that was done is done. The smart thing to do now is prevent future damage not lament past damage. From what I've seen timber companies are going to great lengths (on the whole) to prevent the dmage that was commonly seen in the past.