Fwd: Interdiction of illegal loggers

[Paul Cherubini]

Doug Dawn wrote:

> Hi Neil, pretty sick that this problem is so overwhelming.

Doug, if the amount of illegal logging going on was overwhelming from 
a biological point of view then the scientists and conservationists could 
simply post the high resolution aerial photos they have of the monarch
forests which have been taken from helicopters and airplanes since the 
late 1960's.  What better way of showing the public the scope and impact
of the illegal logging?

But for some reason the scientists and conservationists have never shown 
these crucial photos to the public.  My  guess is they don't want the public 
to see the photos because then we could all see with our own eyes that
there has been only a trivial amount of deforestation at the altitudes and 
on the slopes of the mountains where the monarchs overwinter over the 
past 35 years.

Paul Cherubini
El Dorado, Calif.

 
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