Clearcuts for Kids
A "taxpayer funded piece of timber industry propaganda," is what Arthur Clark of the Allegheny Defense Project (ADP) called the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation & Natural Resources (DCNR) Bureau of Forestry book, Let's Talk About Clearcutting: A Forestry Book for Youth. Aimed squarely at children the book is notably thin on informational content. It deceives children into believing that when it is done properly, there are no negative consequences to clearcutting. Needless to say, this book was not printed on kenaf tree-free paper.

Don McDonald wrote about the amount of effort it will take to change "Rome" and we agree, but that won't lessen our resolve.

Hemp "was good enough for the Constitution to be written on," wrote one reader. (Sorry, but the Constitution is written on parchment, which is an animal skin.)

And a Forest Service reader, who asked not to be named, thinks we ought not be critical of the existing timber industry.

Giraffe Rhymes with Kenaf - what else does?

We asked for your two or more syllable words or phrases that rhyme with kenaf.

Richard Roseburg of Oregon State University submits distaff as in the weed, distaff thistle (or a horse race for fillies and mares - ed).

Decaf, flag staff, one half, distaff, bug calf, fish gaff, and nice laugh, were the two-syllable submissions that gave us a nice laugh, thanks to Joseph Ulmer.

And how about carafe, which someone from California should have come up with.

Feedback
In our last newsletter, we asked for, and you gave us feedback.

"President Clinton's forest protection actions do not go far enough," and "Coffee and banana papers are novelty items that will not replace trees in commercial scale paper making" were both submitted multiple times.

Jim (The Hummers) Lee wrote that we (Vision Paper) "must" cover the controversial issues, for if not us, then who will? And Robin White says "pointed is good" and give us the good news as well.