Expansion of North Cascades National Park

You remain an idiot I see. Do the reasearch Aaron -sweetie pie, your guess can easily be dispelled or proven by searching some public real estate records or looking at park trasnfer announcements as not many Superintendents get transferred. It's easy.............even a caveman can do it.

Chris, I wasn't doubting the facts as you presented them, I was merely commenting about your behavior in posting. Thanks for reinforcing Lowell's point. You shouldn't let your emotions get the better of you in trying to make a rational argument, take your own advice when it comes to reading comprehension.

Chris, I wasn't doubting the facts as you presented them, I was merely commenting about your behavior in posting. Thanks for reinforcing Lowell's point. You shouldn't let your emotions get the better of you in trying to make a rational argument, take your own advice when it comes to reading comprehension.

Aaron..my little cinnamon bun, I think this may be a case of the" kettle calling the pot black".
But no matter back to the subject.

Aaron, since you think the Superintendent that had the ethics problems and was reprimanded is now in charge of the MRNP, how do you feel about that given the report to Congress that was prepared by the government oversite office on his behaviour and impropriety ????
Some specific questions for you.

Can a man with this on his record be trusted to deal fairly with the park concessionaires and conflicts between them?
Can a man with this on his record be trusted to  hire and select contractors for Park work?
Can a man with this on his record be trusted to balance concession holders rights versus other user rights??

Aaron..my little cinnamon bun, I think this may be a case of the" kettle calling the pot black".
But no matter back to the subject.

Aaron, since you think the Superintendent that had the ethics problems and was reprimanded is now in charge of the MRNP, how do you feel about that given the report to Congress that was prepared by the government oversite office on his behaviour and impropriety ????

I think most bureaucrats are either inept or corrupt, he should have been dismissed. People might take you seriously if you omit sentences like the first part of your quote above. You're obviously passionate about these issues and if you could be more civil maybe people would be more sympathetic to your point of view.

I think most bureaucrats are either inept or corrupt, he should have been dismissed. People might take you seriously if you omit sentences like the first part of your quote above. You're obviously passionate about these issues and if you could be more civil maybe people would be more sympathetic to your point of view.

Thank you Aaron I agree with your asssement on the Superintendent. (Goodness, we just agreed on something)
Another question?
What do you think should be done about it... should be just accept it or what?

Thank you Aaron I agree with your asssement on the Superintendent. (Goodness, we just agreed on something)
Another question?
What do you think should be done about it... should be just accept it or what?

In my experience working for the government(military and a pseudo public hospital) the level of insecurity and willingness to cover for one another in high level managers is staggering and I'm not sure anyone can do anything about it. They are afraid someone might start investigating them if they point fingers at others. Our elected officials are just the same in my opinion, they are most concerned with image and legacy.

Having a biomass plant to burn saw kerf and waste wood in conjunction with a modern high tech wood mill that uses train loads of wood each day and is located near a major population center is economically practical--it simply uses underutilized material.  Having a mill that uses "slash" next to vast private tree farms managed on short rotations (I think Green Diamonds is around 200,000 acres) may be economically practical, but the costs of handling, chipping, and transporting would be high.  However, it seems a number of residents of Shelton are put off by the amount of smoke that might be produced, and as you heard, are demonstrating against it.

Gathering wood from vast public lands not intensively managed to fuel a plant in an area with few people has been shown to be economically infeasible because of the costs of harvesting and moving the wood; there was once hope that could be an answer to some of the forest health/areas needing thinning, but the cost-benefit ratio is poor and the environmental impacts of the wood burning would probably be unacceptable.

+1, and claiming that the use of eastern slope trees for biomass burning would do anything to mitigate global warming (which was mentioned at one point in the thread above) is just wrong.