I will agree with you somewhat… but… I do understand that the private land owners have a big problem but I also know that they (Weyerhaeuser and others) limit their options on how to potentially solve some of this problem…

I as well am a close friend with a Weyerhaeuser employee (actually regional manager of two tree farms in Washington) and I also sat with several others to discuss this issue. Since Weyerhaeuser is a major corporation they don't necessarily want the entire problem solve. There are benefits to being able to right off damaged equipment and devalued land, yearly (taxes). The other thing is that since they rely on the local communities for employees they don't want to “stir the pot” with the locals or for that matter their own employee's.

I gave several specific examples with of situations that I knew of with possible solutions and they refused to comment or resolve the issues, remember I am not an employee so they could play dumb.

The first example was that, YES hunters (using this term very loosely) were damaging local forests and roadways with their 4-wheelers and littering. I photographed and reported the situation. Well guess what Weyerhaeuser didn't want to “stir the pot” with the LOCAL hunters that were doing this. The incident that I reports had a Quad trail, with trees cut, ditches filled, etc. right out to a skidder landing with a fire ring and log benches made… oh did I mention that the trail went right to the backyard of a local???

The second example was, seeing a logging truck “in bound” with this, must have been some kind of new logging equipment strapped to the truck . This big kinda rusty/white box (refrigerator) but you know what when we saw the truck on the “out bound” he just had logs. Hmmmm, so where do you suppose that refrigerator went? YES I gave the truck number (yes yellow and green) and road number to my friend, but there was no discipline. Hmmmm.

Now when I gave possible clean-up solutions they were also rejected. Example, user group (i.e. clubs, or individuals) that would be willing to go pickup and dispose of trash for access for hunting and camping, they said NO. I wonder why?

I also ask if they would be reporting the decrease or increase of trash and vandalism after the gate closure, they said yes to the stockholders but this was company information and that it may not be made public? Hmmmm… .

Sorry… but some how this things don't add up and it is a company and they don't owe me anything…. But the Truth would be nice?

Rant, Rant, Rant