This week’s poll question: “What do you think of increased logging occurring on national forest land in Cherokee and surrounding counties?”å
- It’s a good thing, America needs the timber.
- It’s a bad thing, as we are loosing our forests.
- I’m not sure, but I can see both sides.
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“I do not think the government should be logging U.S. Forest Service land. Forest Service
land was set aside for the public to enjoy, it’s our future. If a
tree is already down then it should be harvested, no problem with that. You have to preserve the land, if you don’t we have nothing as a country in the
future. That land is ours to enjoy.”
Joy Stein
Murphy
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“Personally, I don’t like it because I like the forest. I know there’s work and money to make, but I wish they didn’t have to do it that way. I came up here for the woods, and I see the wood going down the road on the trucks.”
Jerry Bartlett
Murphy
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“I don’t like the thought of cutting down wood in our national forest, but I do feel that it’s good that our lumber is coming from the United States. I understand that we do need it, but I wish they could take it from somewhere else. Our mountains are what makes it wonderful here.”
Krista Riddle
Murphy
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“My dad was Native American Cherokee Indian. I’m a tribal member myself of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians,
and I don’t think it’s right. It would destroy our ecosystem – our deer, bear, everything like that. I wanna keep Murphy
and surrounding areas like it used to be – peaceful, quiet,
no logging. All the animals are losing their homes, so I’m against it. They could use synthetic materials. We’re the United States of America, we can come up with something other than timber.”
Sandra Palmer Alexander
Marble
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“I was raised in the country. I’m against forest logging in this area because we love our forest and everything that lives in it. The forest is a giant living organism that communicates with itself.”
Sean Christensen
Marble