| SISKIYOU DAILY NEWS
Friday, April 3, 1998 |
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NMFS
plan threatens all of us here are still many people questioning the validly of those claims opposing the National Marine Fisheries Service proposal of setting a 300-foot buffer zone along our northwestern rivers (60 foot buffer zone along streams). Although there has been plenty of recent publicity in our local paper regarding this issue, it appears that many of our local citizens are still not aware of the potential threat this proposal poses on our local economies, constitutional rights, and the very effect it will have on our American way of life if implemented. the proposals is mainly directed at agriculture resources, such as logging, farming and ranching. Each of these industries are vital producers of commodes that are essential to the existence of our society. The timber industries produces not only the housing that shelters our society, but many by-products that are essential to our every day way of live. The news paper your read daily and all other paper products, including toilet paper are by-products of the trees that are harvested from our private and public lands. If the logging industries is completely shut down, where are these products going to come from? Some say the world market. Maybe SO7 but if such transpires, then look for sharp prices increases on such commodes. The continued threat directed toward the farming and ranching communities by |
the environmental ego freaks and certain federal agencies will
definitely have negative effects on the American consumers if these radicals ever achieve
their goals. Most people outside the rural community are naive about just where the
products they purchase at the supermarkets are coming from. Commodes such as milk,
chicken, beef, bread, and everything they consumer for body strength comes from these
agriculture communities. Those involved in these industries have to make a living and
every time the environmentalist freaks push for new regulations involving the production
of crops, the raising of beef and poultry products, the profit margin narrows. Who will
pay in the long run? All of the American public. Even if these products are shipped in
from outside our nations boundaries, the prices of at the grocery market will continue to
escalate. |
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mice, rabbits, and other forms of prey, essential food sources for the eagle, spotted
owls, bobcats and other predators It's been proven that cattle grazing can be beneficial to our public lands also. Seeds scattered through cattle extractions have thickened the growth of vegetation and grazing has assisted in thinning grassy areas that otherwise would have become prone to fire. The real problems confronting our inland fisheries does not stem from the shorelines of the rivers and their tributaries, but from situations off our coastal lands. Weather pattern changes, the use of gill nets at the mouth of these great rivers, and other related situations off our coastal shores are the real culprits that should be addressed regarding the declines of our fisheries. In essence, the real reasoning behind the NMFS proposal is to lock up more public and private land, further straggle the rural economies so federal governmental take over of such industries can be accomplished. Sound far fetched? Look at how our constitutional rights have been eroded thus far and ask yourself, "just how far are we from a socialistic state?" When there are no more family farms, no more timber industry, no more rural way of life, where are those living in places like Yreka, Montague, and another rural communities going to turn for self preservation? Ron Parker is an outdoors columnist for the Daily News |
