Roundtable Feedback Survey Results Posted
The Administrative Committee is pleased to post the results of the Roundtable Feedback Survey. The survey was conducted to help the Committee in its planning for the December Roundtable meeting scheduled for December 3-4 in Sitka. Seventy individuals responded to the survey. The results come in two files. One file contains the results of the multiple choice questions and is reported by category of respondents (e.g., members, alternates, interested parties). The second file contains the narrative replies, also reported by category of respondents. If you would like to leave a comment about the survey results, please use the space below.
Roundtable Feedback Survey Narrative Replies
Roundtable Feedback Survey Results Narrative
November 8th, 2009 at 9:57 pm
“The 10th edition of the Concise Oxford English Dictionary defined greenwash as “disinformation disseminated by an organization so as to present an environmentally responsible public image”
(http://sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Greenwashing)
Now that the second attempt at a “solution” of the Tongass Futures Roundtable has been released, there’s little left to speculate upon. The “Tongass Solutions Concept” revealed The Nature Conservancy’s agenda subtitled, “Draft Management Prescriptions”, which would transfer ownership of vast swaths (over a million acres) of the Tongass National Forest into privatized/state-owned tree plantations.
It should come as no surprise, that the new owners of this rare gem in our national forest system would be unconstrained by bedrock environmental laws or the nuisance of citizens forcing their government in court, to maintain huntable populations of deer.
If that were the case, the new owners wouldn’t be able to profit from the short rotation-intensive timber harvest they claim to be “sustainable”.
Recognizing the difficulty of convincing the public such intensive harvest would be a good thing, “environmental” representatives have been co-opted as the principal greenwashing timber activists of this exercise in devolution.
It hasn’t gone so well for the greenwashing timber activists collaborating at the roundtable. As such, this would be an excellent time to abandon such deplorable exercises in “collaboration”. Roundtable members should hope no further light gets shed on their backroom negotiations. A timely, quiet exit would be in their best “stakeholding” interests.