National Geographic came out with an article in their 2007 July issue about logging on the Tongass National Forest in Alaska. This is the same forest Scott was arrested on for blocking a road in a formerly road-less area in 2004 with Greenpeace. Here are some pictures from that. National Geographic says that the Forest Service spends 30 million dollars a year on timber sales that bring in only 750 thousand dollars for a loss of $29,250,00. Enough to pay every timber worker $140K a year to stay home. We hope we are creating an alternative to this type of waste and destruction by cutting and milling trees locally and selectively on a small scale.
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