Editor, The Times:
I sure am getting tired of listening to people who can’t see the forest for the trees! The Crown land between Spahats Creek and Wells Gray Park belongs to all the people of B.C., not just the few radicals who are making a lot of noise about nothing.
A compromise as to whether community forests or Canfor does the logging is stupid. Who cares? It is still being logged!
If you want to enhance the corridor to Wells Gray Park, start by fixing the road.
Before you chastise Canfor about “corporate greed”, you’d better think about what Canfor means to Clearwater: what taxes are brought to the town, what jobs are created, and what spinoff business is brought in.
The environmental movement is very quick to want logging stopped, but it fails to remember what made the province as it is today. All the so-called environmental scientists agree that carbon emissions from vehicles are the main cause of global warming.
Forget the moratorium on logging; I say we need a moratorium on tourism! Consider the emissions from airline flights to and from Europe and Asia, and the millions and millions of tonnes of carbon being expelled into our ever-so-sensitive environment by buses and motorhomes.
As for the so-called environmental scientists, remember that a weekend crash course in civil disobedience and a protest march or two do not constitute a doctorate in environmental science.
Jim Lamberton
The Rambling Man
Blackpool, B.C.