Originally Posted by peakbagger Originally Posted by

The major issue that these types of battles come down to is that groups are trying to force a national forest into a national park indirectly by removing the multiple use designation of a National Forest. The White Mountain National Forest used to be ringed by wood products manufacturers of many types supplying many products and full time jobs for the local population. Over the years the whites has been pushed into more of the "Boston National Park" and the volume of harvests have dropped significantly. Many if not most of the woods product facilities have shut down creating a long term unemployment issue in the region. Seasonal homes have moved in and the inevitable tourist based economy has moved into some areas but seasonal tourist based jobs are no substitute for the previous full time woods products jobs. A byproduct of the seasonal home invasion are developers that starve out the local wood industry and sell the lots abutting the National Forest as seasonal lots. Once that happens, there are a group of retires that move into the area and have nothing better to do but create programs to save the woods not realizing that the woods they are looking at have been cut 3 or 4 times.



I popular bumper sticker in the area when the whites were under pressure from the ban logging movement was "if you object to logging try using plastic toiler paper".