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Wednesday, March 7, 2012
be seen in the national
news; the road issue is
but a microcosm. Roads
are essential elements of
commerce, eliminating
them from the Payette
Forest could control that
element. More pointedly,
there would be no tim-
ber harvest or manage-
ment capability of other
resources without them.
That is a goal for some
in the environmental
community. For Adams
County timber harvest
and ranching are major
life-blood elements.
Closing roads plus the
cost, especially by oblit-
eration, is a major con-
cem that all citizens
should continue to have
very substantive discus-
sions about with the
Forest Service. The arti-
cles should help everyone
in acquiring more infor-
mation.
In the future several
article items need subjec-
tion to a reasoned smell
test.
1?.on HavwiLton,
cabrLd9
(Hamilton is Chairman
of the Adams County
Natural Resources
Committee)
Natural selection
serves a purpose
Dear Editor,
I was very impressed
with Mike Paradis and
his willingness to lend a
couple of visitors a "very
large" helping hand after
they managed to get their
vehicle stuck in the East
Fork drainage.
It certainly sounds as
though Mike went way
out of his way to give
these two men assis-
tance. I can only imag-
ine how many hours (and
gallons of gas) it must
have taken Mike to com-
plete this rescue mission.
However, it also sounds
as though these two
individuals used little
(or no) common sense in
attempting to take this
route while deep snow
'6¢i'ed the 'i-oadway, As
the article mentioned
these men were from
Coeur d'Alene, an area
known to get snow, and
should have known bet-
ter than to try such a
foolish undertaking and
to try it with no provi-
sions to Support them-
selves.
1 know that we live
in a society that values
human lives and we are
taught to help our neigh-
bors whenever the oppor-
tunity arises. However, by
not allowing the process
of natural selection (only
the strongest, smart-
est, fastest are able to
survive and thus repro-
duce) to occur we will
continue to have a popu-
lation in which all genes
are allowed to be passed
on from one generation
to the next. Over time,
this will have the effect
of actually making our
species weaker, dumber
and slower. In many trib-
al environments young
males were required to
perform rather danger-
ous feats to prove their
ability to survive before
becoming men and there-
fore able to marry and
bear offspring. Of course
not all of the young
males survived this "ini-
tiation" process and this
resulted in the elimina-
tion of their genes from
the species' gene pool.
Since the article in
last week's edition didn't
mention the age of these
two men I can not specu-
late whether they have
already been able to
reproduce or not. If they
were still relatively young
then their genes are still
in the population and
could possibly be passed
on to future generations
resulting in humans with
less than a full helping
of common sense. These
men were indeed rescued,
but at what cost to the
human race?
5tev cobb,
Concll
Wilderness/Roadless
bill misinformation
Dear Editor,
There is a lot of misin-
formation being bantered
about concerning H.R.
1581, the Wilderness and
Roadless Area Release
Act of 2011. Contrary
to what opponents may
have you believe, the
bill -- whic h is now;being
considered in Congress --
wouldn't open 43 n. !!in
acres of public land to
interests that would deci-
mate it. The bill would
merely allow federal land
managers to re-evaluate
the 43 million acres of
public land in question
to determine what uses,
ff any, should be allowed,
with input from the local
community.
Make the difference
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Road issue is
political
Dear Editor:
Thank you for explor-
ing the mystical mine-
field of roads on the
Payette National Forest.
Roads provide the public
the ability to more easily
access and use the myr-
iad resources public gen-
eral Forest lands provide.
Your article illustrates
that few decisions are
actually under control of
the local Forest Service
managers; they simply
execute them. Numerous
laws and policies control
their latitude, a 4 pound
Forest Land Management
Plan implements them,
but has some latitude for
roads.
Not discussed in the
article was how much
of the academic and
researched materials are
subject to much discus-
sion and less than uni-
versal agreement in the
fields of science associat-
ed with them. Several sci-
entists with as much or
more academic and field
experience, compared
to Forest Service exper-
tise, are found in sur-
rounding communities,
many are members of the
Adams County Natural
Resources Committee.
These and other local
experts act as advisors
to the Adams County
Board of Commissioners,
responding to questions,
but more importantly
providing review and
evaluating programs and
proposals from agencies
managing state and fed-
eral lands in the county.
The 'review and evalua-
tions are very vital in pre-
serving the lifestyle and
economic well being of
the county's citizens. The
effects of roads and their
closure or management
can seriously influence
the economic well being
of the county citizens.
Roads for that reason are
an issue that transcends
he ie'ount'arid the state
of Idah0. Road manage-
ment is an issue Idaho's
Congressional delegation
spends a great deal of
time dealing with.
The road management
issue on the National
Forests, has had far
less to do with actual
effects than it has to
do with political con-
trol. Environmental poli-
tics are messy, as can
The Wilderness and
Roadless Area Release
Act involves 6.7 million
acres managed by the
federal Bureau of Land
Management (BLM) and
on 36.1 million acres
of U.S. Forest Service
(USFS) land that was
evaluated for strict con-
gressional Wilderness
land-use designations.
The federal agencies
have determined the 43
million acres aren't suit-
able for Wilderness des-
ignation, which is one
of the strictest forms
of public land manage-
ment. Yet because of var-
ious laws and rules, they
must continue to strictly
manage the land as de
facto Wilderness until
Congress "releases" it for
consideration for other
possible uses.
In fact, U.S. Sen. John
Barrasso (R-Wyo.) stat-
ed in a hearing of the
National Parks, Forests
and Public Lands
Subcommittee of the
House Natural Resources
Committee that the bill
doesn't dictate what will
or won't happen on the
released lands. Rather,
he said, it returns man-
agement to the respec-
tive agencies using well-
established criteria.
It provides them the
flexibility to manage our
public lands for a multi-
tude of activities, includ-
ing responsible motor-
ized recreation. BLM
Director Robert Abbey
and Harris Sherman,
Under Secretary for
Natural Resources
and Environment,
Department of
Agriculture, agreed.
Sincerely,
Wan Alla rd
(Allard is Vice
President for Government
Relations at the American
Motorcyclist Association
and a former U.S. Senate
and U.S. House member
from Colorado.)
Our government is
in bed with big
business
Dear Editor,
People are oten holTi-
fled at the idea of limi t -
ing tie"size d power of
Federal agencies charged
with protecting our safe-
ty. The FDA is a perfect
example. Why would we
want to limit an agency
The Adams County Record
whose job it is to monitor
our food and medicine?
The answer is simple:
they don't work for us.
The FDA has become an
extension of its corporate
friends in Big Agra and
Big Pharma, working fo
protect their profit shares
at the expense of our
health and wellbeing.
Raw milk is a perfect
example. The FDA active-
ly works to prevent the
sale of raw milk and our
tax dollars have been
used to fund armed raids
on raw milk producers.
Is buying milk from a
farmer something that
warrants Federal agents
with guns? Similar raids
have been conducted
against producers of
elderberry juice for mak-
ing health claims that
are not approved by the
FDA and, therefore, con-
sidered dangerous.
We are told that this
is all about our safety.
However, it seems appar-
ent that this behav-
ior has more to do with
protecting the cash flow
into select corporations
than it does with keep-
ing us safe. True food
and health "freedom" is
a threat to the status
quo that wants us to
buy our food Genetically
Modified (and patented)
by Monsanto and our
medicine (also patented)
from Pfizer.
The FDA protects these
entities because there is
a revolving door between
the FDA and the organi-
zations it is intended to
monitor. The result is a
hypocritical bureaucracy
that "protects" us from
raw milk and elderberry
juice but promotes phar-
maceutical drugs and
genetically modified foods
without critical examina-
tion. These actions are
based less on science or
safety than on protect-
ing the flow of money.
The usual suspects prof-
it while "we the people"
become sicker and more
dependent on a system
that abuses us.
I encourage everyone
in our community to
research : these issues.
The actions of the FDA
are analogous to many
of the problems occur-
ring throughout our
Government. It isn't a
left/right problem. It's a
problem with the para-
digm that runs our sys-
tem of govemment and
business. And it's a prob-
lem we cannot fix until
we see it clearly.
La/ne FLsk
forvv.erly of Cov.ncil,
now at os¢.
Luna plays politics
with Idaho teachers
Dear Editor,
Yesterday's comments
from Superintendent
Tom Luna about JFAC's
funding boost to schools
and teachers is a bit of a
flip flop.
With the referendum
on the 3 Luna laws loom-
ing this fall, Mr. Luna
is playing politics with
Idaho teachers. He is
backing off his stance to
drastically reduce teacher
salaries in order to fund
laptops for every high
school student and his
pay-for-performance for-
mula because he knows
it is politically unpalat-
able.
Meanwhile, the leg-
islature - with Luna
doing nothing to public-
ly oppose it - provides
36 million dollars of tax
relief to corporations and
the wealthiest Idahoans.
While virtually every
state office is underfund-
ed, social services suffer
from lack of funds, and
schools are in desperate
need - is this called lead-
ership?
Across the state school
districts are forced to
pass supplemental lev-
ies and increase property
taxes just to maintain
the status quo. Teachers
spend from their own
meager incomes to pur-
chase learning resources
which the district can't
afford, veteran teachers
retire early or leave for
adjoining states where
quality in education is
prized and responsible
leadership . exists, class
sizes escalate, teacher
workloads increase, and
electives like art and
music are dropped from
school curriculums.
Idaho continues among
the worst in graduation
rates, post-secondary
enrollments, and fund-
ing. Thanks to the ill-
conceived Luna laws and
remarkably inept leader-
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