Talk:Cave Junction, Oregon

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[edit] Loss of lumber mills

The statement that the lumber mills dwindled due to goverment regulation and roadless federal lands sounds specious to me. Most of the mills were gone in the late 1960s, decades before such regulation was contemplated and before road construction on federal forest lands was curtailed. Cave Junction residents from the late 1950s and early 1960s will remember extensive clearcutting on the Siskiyou slopes around the Illinois Valley. Over forty years later one can still see the damage caused by those clearcuts, which haven't produced any harvestable timber of note. The one mill that lasted the longest, Rough and Ready, did so because they relied heavily on well-managed private timber holdings. Offhand, I'd say the mills disappeared mostly due to greed and lack of foresight. —Quicksilver^{T @} 21:42, 20 November 2006 (UTC)

I agree the statement sounds specious. The phrase used to say "clearcutting and over-harvesting on the surrounding mountainsides" but someone changed it to the current wording. So I tagged that for "citation needed" but I don't think our little Wiki article on Cave Junction needs to be a POV battleground about the pros and cons of the timber industry. I'm removing the phrase, and if anyone can actually find a source for the mill closures being due to either clearcutting or overregulation, then please do put it back in. Katr67 21:52, 20 November 2006 (UTC)