<!doctype html public "-//W3C//DTD W3 HTML//EN">
<html><head><style type="text/css"><!--
blockquote, dl, ul, ol, li { padding-top: 0 ; padding-bottom: 0 }
--></style><title>Re: [MCN] BARK: An Important Lesson from
Montana</title></head><body>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><b>From:</b> Brenna Bell, Bark<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, July 13, 2016 3:12 PM<br>
<b>Subject:</b> An Important Lesson from Montana<br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite> <br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite align="center"><i>Want to know what
really happened to all those timber industry jobs?</i></blockquote>
<div><br></div>
<div>Many thanks, Matt. The answers to the question of what has really
been happening to forest jobs have seldom been framed in straight
talk, so it was welcome in what you posted. I hope this time around we
can see more of it.</div>
<div><br></div>
<div>There's some good precedent for it -- some straight talk about
forest jobs showed up in the Autumn 1984 issue of the UM business
journal, the Montana Business Quarterly. The article by Charles Keegan
pointed out that, just in Montana, jobs for people working in mills
and out in the woods would be cut by 1000 to 3000, stripping
$20million to $60million consumer spending out of the Montana
economy.</div>
<div><br></div>
<div>Back then, three decades ago, Keegan's analysis showed that the
loss of jobs would be forced by an expansion of mechanized operations
in the logging and milling industries.</div>
<div><br></div>
<div>Why would industry be replacing muscle with machinery? With the
controversial and damaging boom in taking down big old growth trees
coming to a close, the industry was already buying machines (e.g.,
feller-bunchers) capable of handling the smaller logs that seemed the
future of logging.</div>
<div><br></div>
<div>Same as today, we have plenty of people who never got that side
of the logging jobs story, and are still getting stories of
conservationists accused of being the great jobs-destroyers.</div>
<div><br></div>
<div>Here today, gone tomorrow</div>
<div>Ironically, people in the mills and woods whose jobs depended on
the big trees from old growth stands were effectively employed in
digging graves for those jobs, and there was at least a grain of
inevitability to it. To actually save jobs dependent on old growth
required saving the old growth itself, which was what many a Montana
conservationist wanted. There would have been fewer jobs that way,
too, but they would have been based on an industry offering some long
term value.</div>
<div><br></div>
<div>Not long after the Montana Business Quarterly sketched out a
prediction of lost jobs, the Wall Street Journal ran a page one
article that said, to paraphrase for brevity's sake, big timber
companies were rushing into the forests of Northwest US, planning to
get what they could in a logging boom, then close up shop, get out,
and shift their efforts to the Southeast US.</div>
<div><br></div>
<div>Lance</div>
<div><br></div>
<x-sigsep><pre>--
</pre></x-sigsep>
<div><font face="Lucida Grande" size="-1"
color="#000000"
>--------------------------------------------------------------------<span
></span>---------<br>
"We present responses of a mixed woody-herbaceous ecosystem type to
an extreme event: regional-scale pinon pine mortality following an
extended drought, and the subsequent herbaceous green-up following the
first wet period after the drought."<br>
<br>
Paul M. Rich, David D. Breshears and Amanda B. White. PHENOLOGY OF
MIXED WOODY-HERBACEOUS ECOSYSTEMS FOLLOWING EXTREME EVENTS: NET AND
DIFFERENTIAL RESPONSES.<i> Ecology,</i> 89(2), 2008, pp. 342-352 Ó
2008 by the Ecological Society of America</font></div>
<div><font face="Lucida Grande" size="-1"
color="#000000"><br></font></div>
<div><font
color="#000000">@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000"><br></font></div>
<div><font face="Lucida Grande" color="#000000">"Habitat loss and
deterioration represent the main threats to wildlife species, and are
closely linked to the expansion of roads and human
settlements."</font></div>
<div><font face="Lucida Grande" color="#000000"><br></font></div>
<div><font face="Lucida Grande" color="#000000">Aurora Torres et al.
Assessing large-scale wildlife responses to human infrastructure
development.<i> PNAS </i> Early Edition</font><font face="Arial"
color="#000000"> 7/5/2016</font></div>
<div><font face="Lucida Grande" color="#000000">doi:
10.1073/pnas.1522488113</font></div>
<div><font face="Lucida Grande" color="#000000">Abstract</font></div>
<div><font face="Lucida Grande"
color="#000000"><u
>http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2016/07/05/1522488113.abstract</u></font
><br>
<font face="Lucida Grande" size="-1" color="#000000"></font></div>
<div><font face="Geneva" color="#000000"><br>
<font size="-1"><br>
</font><br>
</font><font face="Lucida Grande" size="-1" color="#000000"><br>
</font><font face="Lucida Grande" size="-1" color="#141413"><br>
</font></div>
</body>
</html>