A “green plan” that sounds pretty good?

Here’s a plan that should satisfy both proponents and opponents of environmental causes.

In Kake, Alaska there’s a small town that has an unemployment rate of 80%.  The federal government had a plan to build 26 miles of road into the forest at a cost of $6 million and harvest 70 million board feet of old growth trees.  Because of the scope of the project it wasn’t expected to provide much employment for the 500 people trying  to eke out a living in the community.

In an unusual decision the Forest Service decided to have a meeting with the locals and find out what they thought should be done.

They said ‘give us less.’   One small road, less than 2 miles, into the forest will be enough for our small mills.  It will be enough work for our isolated community to survive and it will help our black tail deer flourish and  the reduced cutting will protect our watershed, etc.

The Forest Service smiled and more or less said, “you got a deal!”

For the entire story please go to the L A Times article at:

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-tongass-logging