UN controls US forest thinning?

[Cyber Wolf]

Originally Posted by Happy Monkey

Unfortunately, it is at the cost of US diplomatic credibility.

You mean with all the stuff Bush and Company has done, we still have some left to lose?

I notice that your original article calls this a PROPOSED amendment, so first the UN itself is going to have to write it up (if it decideds to), and then the US would have to sign and agree to follow the UN manadate. I find it extremely hard to imagine that ever happening. The USFS has gone hand in hand with big logging concerns from day one. US forests are already, if anything over harvested, not under. This is especially true in the arid west where trees simply don't grow back at the rate they do in the Pacific Northwest and the South. The timber industry would scream bloody murder if ANY administration, either Republican or Democrat were to even attempt to do something that might cut into their profits. I wouldn't loose any sleep over it, Lookout.