Hillary Franz has made clear consistently by making these Legacy Forest Timber sales 50% of all sales annually that she has not been listening to wise policy suggestions . Thus Ms. Franz with her policy has mismanaged the 3 percent DNR lands with Legacy Forests and ignored pleas from Forest Scientists to preserve these near Old growth diverse whole ecosystems as conservation areas for threatened and endangered species. Profits from the Carrot and Cabbage Patch timber sales are intended to benefit Thurston County to help pay for public school construction. However, the State Superintendent of Public Instruction Chris Reykdal has publicly stated that the money is not needed for public school construction. And the money that Thurston County will receive represents an almost insignificant fraction of the overall county budget about 1- 1/2 % and can easily be made up by selling off ample supplies of Mature 40-50 year old 3rd growth plantation Doug Fir forests that make up 97 percent of DNR state forestland that contain no Legacy and near Old growth trees instead . Poor conservation policy is robbing our environment and the ability of school children to hike and learn in living Legacy Forest Classrooms . DNR's Forest sale managers are only weighing maximum profit schemes while ignoring best available science written in long standing DNR policy directives . We need a new DNR administration with whole forest ecosystem education and ethics . Yours , Kim Dobson
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