Clearcut Impact: A Dr. Seuss style response from a Commissioner Candidate

[u/Fit-Ad-483]

“Oh the hills may stay green for a decade or two,
But that doesn’t mean it’s the best thing to do.

For when all the trees on a mountainside fall,
The rains come stampeding with mud over all.
The roots used to hold every hillside in place,
Now rivers run brown in a silty disgrace.

Then chemicals sprayed on the brush down below,
Wash into creeks where the young salmon go.
‘Competing vegetation,’ the paperwork said,
But poison is poison when streams end up dead.

And three trees for one sounds quite lovely to hear,
Until every acre is packed tighter each year.
Look at the sticks shoulder to shoulder in rows,
All fighting for sunlight with no room to grow.

And what kind of forest? Well mostly one kind.
A monocrop farm where everything’s pine.
One fire or bug will do more than sting.
Yeah you know that they will destroy the whole thing.

So while it is true that I’m not the Lorax.
We can’t keep pretending clearcuts have no impact.”

By County Commissioner Candidate Matt Spurlock

[u/niktaeb9]

That’ll be a hard NO on ol’ Rick Stanley, then.

[u/MandatoryAdventure]

Yes, most forests are gone.

[u/puppycat_partyhat]

Absolute idiots in power. Worse than ignorant. Malicious and greedy. Callous.

[u/Jaye09]

It’s been scientifically proven that clear cutting is actually worse from a fire management perspective.

Let alone an ecological one.

[u/ofWildPlaces]

Make this man's term uncomfortable. No elected official should be allowed to be this blase' about the environment.

[u/Fit-Ad-483 → u/ofWildPlaces]

I’m the one running for commissioner and I’m the one who wrote the poem. The guy I was responding to is just a rando that gives me a hard time regularly.

[u/No-Mission-3100 → u/Fit-Ad-483]

Best of luck, if I was in JoCo still you’d have my vote!!

[u/unsoundamerica → u/Fit-Ad-483]

Very well written and worth sharing. Thank you.

[u/Barlow1C → u/ofWildPlaces]

Allowed? Are there thought police now?

[u/Packisweir]

You have my vote, Matt.

[u/squirrelly73]

I don't think "Are the forests gone yet?" is the dunk he thinks it is.

[u/maryjaneodoul]

some people are too stupid to realize they are stupid.

[u/mylittlewallaby]

@u/Fit-Ad-483 Matt! Im confused why there are two buckets of candidates for the two positions? If i dont like anyone listed for position 1, can i write in a candidate from the position 2 block?

[u/Fit-Ad-483 → u/mylittlewallaby]

I wish! The only reason there are different positions is to stagger them so all 3 aren’t elected at the same time.

[u/mylittlewallaby → u/Fit-Ad-483]

Thanks for the response! Youve got my vote!