Editor:
The May 18 edition of Coast Reporter contained two letters about logging.
One was a short negative letter blaming the Elphinstone Logging Focus for blocking the road to the clearcut logging operations on Mount Elphinstone. This writer was annoyed because he had to re-route a bike race. What short-term concerns he had.
No concern for long-term effects ofclearcut loggingsuch as: landslides, loss of homes and lives of whole species of animals, loss of thousands of birds' nests and many more eggs. No concern for floods, damage to property, loss of the most effective form of filtering and land stabilizers in the entire world (trees). No concern for loss of beautiful, efficient trees. No concern for our children and grandchildren who will have to live in the unstable, polluted world we have created.
Trees contribute to a sustainable world. We need a certain number of them to decrease the effects of pollution. How many per person do we need? How many to counteract effects of our polluting industries? Has this been worked out? Wake up people who support this type of logging, and consider the future.
The second, much more comprehensive letter described the beauty of an undisturbed forest, and suggested some solutions that lie before us. It was certainly more pleasant to read than the angry few lines that headed the letters' section last week.
Sally Abraham
Roberts Creek
