Re postings about wood

[Vince Mrykalo]

>                       Subject:                              Time:  3:01 PM
>   OFFICE MEMO         Re postings about wood                Date:  6/1/95
> Why not go
> one step farther (are you listening Steve Brady, oh creative and wonderful new
> Tech Editor) and have a regular column in the Journal about our Resource base?
> Maybe call it the "Resource Fact Column"?

A great idea!

> We need to be informed so that we
> can offer sound advice to policy makers that affect the quantity and quality
> of the resources we depend on. In case you didn't realize it, there are still
> corporations in the world outside of the piano industry that are trying to
> strike deals with the National Forest Service to clear cut old growth stands
> of Sitka Spruce. Sometimes the use of the lumber is intended for rather
> trivial products such as the manufacture of paper and disposable chopsticks.
> Not only is clearcut harvesting ecologically disastrous;

It is not always disastrous.

> but, given the prices
> that Sitka Spruce can bring as lumber for the music industry, selective
> harvesting over a long period of time is much more econmoically prudent.
>
> Ken Sloane, Oberlin Conservatory

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