On Nov 3, 2010, at 9:22 PM, Alan Rudy wrote:
>
> What I've noticed is that you've yet to claim that the Forest
> Service in the
> US is qualitatively different - with the emphasis on qualitative -
> from its
> parallel institution in Sweden...
But isn't the US Forest Service quite explicitly at the service (witness more than a century of bitter conflict with the National Parks Service) of the Timber Companies with no concern whatever for the environment or even long-term productivity? Do you claim that such has always been the case in Sweden?
Shane Mage
"Thunderbolt steers all things." Herakleitos of Ephesos, fr. 64