Your comments are rude and ill-informed. Obviously you know nothing about me or others in your audience.

It is precisely your bigotted presumption that convinces me that you are indeed what you claim you *aren't*: a money-grubbing capitalist willing to sacrifice our environmental heritage and hope for salvation for a petty little rubberstamp from the Forest Stewardship Council. Though *some* trees may be able to be grown back, they won't do us any good in the next twenty years when we need to be fighting global warming with all our might. Though I think wood is the most beautiful material available in nature and an integral part of our cultural material heritage, we need to create a new paradigm to deal with the global warming crisis that is already upon us. Cutting down old growth trees now (even if new trees are replanted) will not help enough in this time of crisis. (As an alternative, I would suggest people use bamboo or hemp.)

Yes, I try to support local businesses, but that doesn't mean that because you're a locally-owned business you are beyond scrutiny. An honest living is hard to find nowadays, but that doesn't mean it isn't possible. It just makes it a lot harded for you to pay off your 75k Stanford bill. Boo-hoo. Here's a big hint: if you study biology, don't expect to get rich off of it. Even doctors in this county aren't "rich." What makes you think you deserve to be?

Thank you Mark Levy for letting the greater public know about what is going on at Big Basin.