Editor:
I think ELF has gone too far when it unequivocally advocates purchase of private lands in the watershed. ELF takes an extreme position, namely that any logging is detrimental. When we view the organization’s history, we see it has protested logging because there were bear dens in the area, mushrooms, culturally modified trees, one big giant tree and patches of old growth. It should be plain by now that ELF is opposed to logging, period.
Logging is an unpopular thing to support but when one considers that the lovely forests ELF is defending from utter ruin (that is the kind of language it uses) have been logged previously, the stuff goes out of their argument. As a former registered professional forester in Ontario, my view is that we need to be very careful in the watershed, but not every tree cut is going to cause harm. Cut or don’t cut, I don’t want my tax dollars used to satisfy the idiosyncrasies of single-issue zealots.
Michael McLaughlin, Gibsons
