[MPWG] Federal Land Management Policy and Hypocrisy

[Jim Chamberlain]

I thought this discussion group was about medicinal plants, hence the name
Medicinal Plants Working Group. Since this diatribe has nothing to do with
MPWG why is it on this list serve?

Jim Chamberlain, Ph.D.,CF
Research Scientist, Non-Timber Forest Products
Coordinator, Research Group 5.11 (Non-Wood Forest Products), IUFRO
U.S. Forest Service, SRS-4352, National Agroforestry Center
1650 Ramble Road
Blacksburg, VA 24060

Tel: 540-231-3611
Fax: 540-231-1383
Email: jachambe at vt.edu
Email: jchamberlain at fs.fed.us
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URL: http://www.srs4702.forprod.vt.edu/
URL: http://iufro.boku.ac.at/iufro/iufronet/d5/hp51100.htm



----- Original Message -----
From: "MoonBranch Botanicals" <moonbranch at earthlink.net>
To: <mpwg at lists.plantconservation.org>
Sent: Monday, April 30, 2007 1:32 PM
Subject: [MPWG] Federal Land Management Policy and Hypocrisy


>
> Subject: Federal Land Management Policy and Hypocrisy
>
> Hello Friends (and Others),
>
> I can only hope you are able to open the attached photos of recent logging
activities on the Nantahala National Forest. This type of behavior on the
part of our Federal Agencies here in the Cheoah Ranger District in Graham
County, North Carolina continues to annoy and disturb me. How in the Hell
wildharvesters can be targeted as environmental rapists when this type of
scenario is created by those who would condemn us is beyond me.
>
> I am calling on a boycott of and passive resistance to federal land
management policy by the local harvester base until this situation is
remedied. What's fair is fair.
>
> It is clear to me the Federals have no respect for their own laws and
policies. I now understand why people in traditional use communities are
forced to become outlaws.
>
> Robin
>
>
> Robin Alton Suggs
> MoonBranch Botanicals
> 5294 Yellow Creek Road
> Robbinsville, North Carolina 28771
> USA
>
> Telephone: 828.479.2788
> moonbranch at earthlink.net
> www.moonbranch.com
>
> Member:
> American Herbalist Guild
> Co-op America
> Green Products Alliance
> National Network of Forest Practitioners
> North Carolina Consortium on Natural Medicines
> North Carolina Goodness Grows/NCDA&CS
> North Carolina Natural Products Association
> Southwestern North Carolina RC&D Council
> United Plant Savers
>
> "We have no choice but to respect that which sustains us."


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