Destruction of old logging roads a waste of money
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Editor,
Common sense anyone?
Soon out will come the old shoot’n iron. And whether you’re a crack shot or not, many will fulfill that age old desire to hunt and gather.
The young and vigorous will tramp over hill and dale to sneak up on that bull elk or perhaps the monster buck.
Only a true hunter knows that feeling.
Then there’s us aging guys - and gals for that matter. We are forced to a level plane because of old wounds and injuries.
Have you noticed the forest service destroying those old log roads? Ripping them to such a condition that it’s impossible to even walk on them? We wonder whose lame-brain idea that was? Taxpayers paid a lot of money to once build these great still hunting pathways. But since when has the government been concerned with wasting taxpayers money? At least they could leave a walkway cut in with the machine’s bucket.
Us old loggers have memories back to the forest rangers of yesteryear. Men who were low on academics but high on morals and common sense. Men of character and integrity. Surely there’s still a few out there like Doug Russel?
Thankfully Plum Creek has not resorted to such insanity. Whatever you think of that company, their roads are only gated.
When it comes to dumb government decisions, my dear old Mother would say, “They don’t have the good sense God gave a goose.”
Dale Terrillion
Proctor
