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Show Thanks, Jim, for your letter and your time, and for your generosity in offering me the options to work with Ed., or whoever. But this won't work. In all the confusion of conflicting points of view and distress and solutions, I have to zero in on some point of focus. Find the people who share this fouc focus, and work with them. And I think this foxus is working with you men in the public agencies who are striving to carry out your mandate. I ffiftxHixxA what you are doing, I have seen its effectiveness, and I believe in your committment. This is not to say that other points of view are not valid. But they are in conflict. And I cannot handle absolutely opposing views. Your letter now helped me resolve this. Recently two crticisms of the F.S. appeared in a High Country News issuend 6n&a2iaJ?bwiS& sending the managing plicies of Mr. Lucas, in the Colorado region. The other was an interview with Mike Fromme who started out as a writer for the F.S., then with American Forest magazine, then with Field & Stream. Hi criticisms of the timber dominance in the F.S. got him canned from all these organizations. He is critical of the F.S. leadership at the top which determines policy, and his solution is for you guys within to bring about the necessary changes. But you have to work harder at it and more effectively. And, he says, US GUTS on the outsdie, do too. The reason I didn't send this HVN issue is that Lucas is really being taken to task by three kinds of groups in Colorado and Fromme has the most severe condemnation of the F.S. I've heard yet. But, I'm beginning to understand what you people are saying, and doing, which Fromme isn't giving enough weight to. |
