The letter is great and for your beauty is breath take 

Great letter! Maybe you should send a copy to the media, too

Damn good

I am inclined to think that your letter will be largely ignored and you will receive a calculated polite reply. Wherever unfettered greed predominates as a value system nature and people are viewed as a source of exploitation. The lining of the pockets of local businesspersons and politicians is considered more important than nature or human life.

Perhaps some wood will be put aside for coffins, which will eventually contain the stinking carcasses of those who profited from it.

Hope you get a positive result.

In my neighborhood, which is where I walk, my route in the summer is dictated by where the shade is. I hope you can successfully beat this.

When I lived and worked in Snoqualmie, my cabin was in a Weyerhaeuser Experimental Forest, which was cool. As a newspaper editor, I quickly learned that there were three bases of power in that part of the country: Logging, tech and aerospace, and that it was an uphill battle to challenge any of them. Hopefully things have changed a bit since I left almost 20 years ago. Good luck!

You gonna tie yourself to that tree

That would be another tragedy for the people and the environment. Why does business always have to win???

I'll answer my own stupid question. Because politicians make money on these decisions. Every favor they grant to business and industry shows up on their balance sheet. It's disgusting.