Again, Admin Opening Tongass National Forest...
To loggers, oil companies, miners... Tell me fellow RVers that you are not ok with this.
Forum Discussion
The interesting part of this is that the total area being considered is about 498,000 acres. Which sounds like and is a large area. Until you consider that the Tongass National Forest is over 17,000,000 acres in size.
The alarmist are having conniption fits over tiny portions of the area. (3%)
It should also be noted that much of Tongass is islands and in some cases adjacent to National park lands that will likely never be developed in any way.
The biggest problem is that folks in the areas deciding many of these issues have no concept of what they are doing. Tongass is halfway between the size of West Virginia and South Carolina. It alone, is larger than 10 of our states.
We are talking about huge areas, and in many cases the folks sitting in as experts have never travelled sufficiently to have any comprehension of the scale of things they are dealing with. And with the media, you usually have someone who's only desire is to sensationalize the issue as much as they can, which then stirs up the unknowing masses to scream that the sky is falling.
The alarmist are having conniption fits over tiny portions of the area. (3%)
It should also be noted that much of Tongass is islands and in some cases adjacent to National park lands that will likely never be developed in any way.
The biggest problem is that folks in the areas deciding many of these issues have no concept of what they are doing. Tongass is halfway between the size of West Virginia and South Carolina. It alone, is larger than 10 of our states.
We are talking about huge areas, and in many cases the folks sitting in as experts have never travelled sufficiently to have any comprehension of the scale of things they are dealing with. And with the media, you usually have someone who's only desire is to sensationalize the issue as much as they can, which then stirs up the unknowing masses to scream that the sky is falling.
