EDITORIAL

Wrile, Wire or Phone!

E ARE, FoR A VARIETv of reasons, going to press about a week or so earlier this month. We wanted, in this editorial, to give you the name and number of the bill before Congress proposing establishment of a national redwood park, and to urge you, for reasons previously outlined by us and others, to write, wire or phone your Senator and Congressman-and anyone else who can influence Congress-to vote against this legislation. Unfortunately, at this writing, we don't have this information. We can only hope it comes to your attention before it is too late to register your protest.

If we believed in the wrongness of this proposal before the flood, we are now even more convinced of the rightness of our position after a trip to the disaster area and consultation with authorities and afiected persons.

For all practical purposes, Humboldt and Del Norte counties are broke. There is no money in the treasuries to rebuild schools, highways, roads, public facilities, or render effective aid to the stricken and homeless. Monies for this rehabilitation comes from taxes, along with such aid as the federal and state governments render on a low interest rate for disaster areas. But no available aid, public or private, is going to repay, even in part, the individual who has lost his home and belongings twice in ten years and, for an indefinite period, his job.

W'e cannot see the justification for taking large acreage ofi the tax rolls, at this or any other time, with the argument that reduced revenues will be made up by fees from tourists-visiting inaccessible areas.

The public, which benefits from and enjoys our country's only renewable natural rer.o:urce, must take heed and understand the facts of this situation; we tnust spread the gospel; and we must act nott) to forestall this destructive, ruinous legislation.

We, like you, are all for conservation, green belts, keep America green and beautiful, wilderness areas, etc. We, like L. B. J. and his counselors, believe in and will actively support legislation towards this end.

But, by God, we are not going to support legislation that proposes to preserve something that is already rnore than adequately preserved at the expense of human jobs and a substantial economic loss to the country.

The federal government agencies involved know this as well as we do, but the land hungry bureaucrats, egged-on by misinformed conservationists, have misled the public with half-truths. Let's see that our lawmakers (should we call them legislators?) are appraised of the ,rze facts.

CLM will send a year's free subscription to anyone furnishing us a certified copy of his or her protest to Congress.

A Word of Thonks

\[/e would like to take a moment to say thanks to all the people who gave us such full and complete cooperation while we worked on bringing the flood story to you. How they found time to take out to help us while they had such great problems of their own will never cease to amaze us.

A particular note of gratitude is due the people most directly and immediately affected by the flood. Their resiliency, good humor and courage in the face of physical and financial adversity was a won' derful thing to see. And without their help we could never have been able to get the full story.

And to €myone who thinks they won't come back stronger than before, we can only say-you just don't know lumbermen!

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