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Lizzie Poppet

(10,164 posts)
17. "Fool 'Em Strips"
Mon Aug 5, 2013, 01:30 PM
Aug 2013

I've flown over some of the same country I've driven through...and the difference is shocking when you can actually see the effect of all the clearcutting. You can't see this from the highway, by deliberate design.

Still...I have zero interest in living anywhere else.

Avoid Lebanon, Oregon, at all costs TlalocW Aug 2013 #1
Bah! No lakes! longship Aug 2013 #2
Ahem... KamaAina Aug 2013 #11
Well, I forgot about that one. longship Aug 2013 #19
Lived & worked in Oregon for 10 years. Loved it. Tierra_y_Libertad Aug 2013 #3
Interstate 84 out of Portland. The Dalles. Jordan Valley. cherokeeprogressive Aug 2013 #4
I've never been there, TexasTowelie Aug 2013 #5
Clearcutting. Gregorian Aug 2013 #6
It is illegal to log within 200 feet of a state highway KamaAina Aug 2013 #12
Bingo! I've been throughout all of these coastal mountains. It's truly sickening. Gregorian Aug 2013 #15
Own "a timber ranch" in which state? lumberjack_jeff Aug 2013 #29
California Gregorian Aug 2013 #30
yup yup.. opiate69 Aug 2013 #31
Some of the most destructive logging I've seen has been selective cutting. lumberjack_jeff Aug 2013 #37
"Fool 'Em Strips" Lizzie Poppet Aug 2013 #17
You can always tell, even decades later. Replacing natural forest with patches of homogeneous, Egalitarian Thug Aug 2013 #40
I love Oregon and Washington, the Northwest is the best. Zorra Aug 2013 #7
All Oregonians go to heaven when they die. They are too wet to burn. dimbear Aug 2013 #8
I've lived here all my life, and I've never heard that joke before. love_katz Aug 2013 #24
Most of Oregon is pretty darn dry... indie9197 Aug 2013 #27
Just moved to the Oregon coast this spring CanonRay Aug 2013 #9
green and Green. LWolf Aug 2013 #10
being wrecked by transplants busy turning it into teabag central HiPointDem Aug 2013 #13
Oregon is a God Awful Place Blue Idaho Aug 2013 #14
We plan to be living there by the end of 2014 SoCalDem Aug 2013 #20
You wouldn't like it here. Lizzie Poppet Aug 2013 #16
I'd advise against moving here... Faux pas Aug 2013 #18
Too many Californian's Xithras Aug 2013 #21
Oregon is awesome.. opiate69 Aug 2013 #22
Oregon also has been one of the least religious states in the country too... cascadiance Aug 2013 #28
Lol.. very true.. plus, didn't Dumbya's dad refer to it as opiate69 Aug 2013 #35
Little Beirut. This was after the WTO police riots, IIRC. n/t Egalitarian Thug Aug 2013 #42
Ah. ok.. might just be a Thom Hartmann thing then. opiate69 Aug 2013 #43
I grew up around Springfield DiverDave Aug 2013 #23
Its been a few years Go Vols Aug 2013 #25
Burgerville is awesome jeffrey_pdx Aug 2013 #38
One of life's great mysteries. Egalitarian Thug Aug 2013 #44
I live in Wine Country. Where is Oregon? Link Speed Aug 2013 #26
I drove from Astoria, OR, to Lincoln City last week Recursion Aug 2013 #32
Down the coast? jeffrey_pdx Aug 2013 #39
I wanna go back! Phentex Aug 2013 #33
I've heard great things loyalsister Aug 2013 #34
I love Oregon, my adopted home and place of healing. She flies with her own wings. Bluenorthwest Aug 2013 #36
The bridge by where I grew up mick063 Aug 2013 #41
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