Dear HCN,


I just want to thank you for Jeff Golden’s piece about finding the middle ground in the forest management debate (HCN, 9/16/02: A modest forest proposal for President Bush). We need more sensible, thoughtful people who understand the situation to reflect and contribute their thinking on how we can preserve wilderness, reduce huge wildfires and protect our watersheds.


We learned this summer in Colorado that what we have been doing isn’t enough, and neither is letting commercial logging interests carve up what roadless areas remain to harvest old-growth timber under the guise of improving forest health. Thanks for his contribution.

Diane Curlette


Boulder, Colorado

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More thoughtfulness, please

by Diane Curlette, High Country News
September 30, 2002

<h1>More thoughtfulness, please</h1> <p class="byline">by Diane Curlette, High Country News <br />September 30, 2002</p> <p>Dear <i>HCN</i>,</p> <p>I just<br /> want to thank you for Jeff Golden’s piece about finding the middle<br /> ground in the forest management debate (HCN, 9/16/02: A modest<br /> forest proposal for President Bush). We need more sensible,<br /> thoughtful people who understand the situation to reflect and<br /> contribute their thinking on how we can preserve wilderness, reduce<br /> huge wildfires and protect our watersheds.</p> <p>We<br /> learned this summer in Colorado that what we have been doing isn’t<br /> enough, and neither is letting commercial logging interests carve<br /> up what roadless areas remain to harvest old-growth timber under<br /> the guise of improving forest health. Thanks for his<br /> contribution.</p> <p> Diane<br /> Curlette</p> <p>Boulder, Colorado</p> <div class="wp-block-group hcn-print-edition-box"> <p>This article appeared in the <a href="/?p=188776">print edition of the magazine</a> with the headline <span class="hcn-magtitle">More thoughtfulness, please</span>.</p> </p></div> <p>This <a target="_blank" href="https://www.hcn.org/issues/issue-235/more-thoughtfulness-please/">article</a> first appeared on <a target="_blank" href="https://www.hcn.org">High Country News</a> and is republished here under a Creative Commons license.<img src="https://i0.wp.com/www.hcn.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/cropped-HCN_Logo-Monogram_White_Sq-2.png?fit=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1" style="width:1em;height:1em;margin-left:10px;"><img id="republication-tracker-tool-source" src="https://www.hcn.org/?republication-pixel=true&post=108796&amp;ga4=G-0NS3WVPPTN" style="width:1px;height:1px;"></p> Copy to Clipboard

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