Old Rocks
Diamond Member
Old growth is now only 5% of the forest. Enough to provide a few jobs for a few years, and then what? We clear cut like fools, and now are paying for it. Paying for it with the loss of salmon spawning grounds, and loss of soil from the runoff on bare ground.Bullshit. We move US lumberjack jobs because we over logged in the 80's. Also, many of the jobs in the woods and mills became mechanized, with a machine doing the work of 10 to 30 men.No. Which begs the question, why does Canada have 100's of thousands, possibly millions of U.S jobs?Is the cost of labor that much cheaper in Canada?
Our trade deficit with Canada is small. A large portion of Canada's exports to the US are raw materials such as oil, minerals, lumber. You can't move a Canadian lumberjack job to the US.
You can't move a Canadian lumberjack job to the US.
Why not? We moved US lumberjack jobs for the stupid spotted owl.
With at least 10,000 jobs in the Pacific Northwest expected to be lost so as to save some of nation's oldest trees and the owls that live among them, loggers and sawmill workers here are demanding economic compensation from the Federal Government.
10,000 Are Expected to Lose Jobs to Spotted Owl