The Maine Woods

A Publication of the Forest Ecology Network

 Volume Five     Number One                           Late Winter 2001

 

All three groups take money from the paper and timber companies that bankrolled the opposition to Question 2.

 

Industry TV ads  showed woodlot owners, not the corporate executives from Atlanta and Seattle who are writing the checks.

But Question 2 wasn't about small woodlot owners: it was about big. The big multinational corporations who are buying influence so they can continue to trash Maine's forests.

Question 2 would not have affected small woodlot owners; Forest Service reports showed they are already cutting sustainably.

The same reports show that the industrial landowners are cutting 38% faster than the trees are growing back.

That's why industry spent over $2 million to stop the forestry referendum, including:

International Paper.....$380,000
SD Warren..................$200,000
Georgia-Pacific..........$150,000
Fort James..................$125,000
JD Irving....................$101,000

Don't be fooled. Join us in our attempts to hold the paper corporations accountable and protect the Maine woods.

Giant Forest Octopus

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