If you repeat the lie enough, people will eventually accept it
as truth. Mark Grzan’s March 8 letter stating that President George
W. Bush’s Healthy Forest Initiative was
”
development under the guise of preservation
”
is such a lie.
Dear Editor,
If you repeat the lie enough, people will eventually accept it as truth. Mark Grzan’s March 8 letter stating that President George W. Bush’s Healthy Forest Initiative was “development under the guise of preservation” is such a lie.
The HFI’s goal was conservation (sustainable use), not preservation (don’t touch).
Proper forest management (conservation) uses forest products (cutting down trees – the horror! – and replanting them) and keeps brush low (so the natural fire cycle promotes tree health).
Forest preservation results in widespread disease; Lake Tahoe is an excellent example. For an excellent lesson in forest management, I highly suggest attending Forest Conservation Days at Sanborn Park on either March 26 or 27.
Hopefully the “mass extinction” that Grzan cites (dictated from his lords in Berkeley) will be of his “progressive,”
tree-hugger kind.
Alan Viarengo, Gilroy
