The department of Agriculture does more than distribute checks to big farmers, run the land banks, price control and support corporate welfare. It put together the Encyclopedia of Wood. Of the many crazy things the DOA does, this is one of the better things. However there are a few bugs.
I wanted to buy this book but at over $300 dollars a copy on Amazon it seems that I cant afford it. Now I can understand paying a fee to cover cost, but $300 for a book that I already paid with my taxes just feels like Im getting fucked. Now I can buy a used copy for $10 dollars, soft cover. But it is the principle, I/we have paid for the book, the research, the publishing, so why should I have to pay a secondary tax. And why is the book $350 dollars. Is the DOA a profit making corporation?
I suppose it is for conservation purposes, we dont want to cut down the forest for a book. But the content is valuable for preserving and maintaining our forest. For people that use wood and wood products on a daily basis, there are things they need to know about trees, aka wood. It is a resource just like any other.
Some of these trees have a medicinal value. Some of these woods are worth recycling. Trees are living things and they get sick. Many of our trees are infested with insects that eventually kill the tree and turn it into kindling. Maybe a magnetic field would affect the insects and allow us to nurse the tree back to health. We have a symbiotic relationship with trees they take in CO2 from the atmosphere and release O2, we take in O2 and release CO2.. Come fall the leaves change colors and give us a panorama to behold.
In either case I want you congressman and senators to explain why this publication is so expensive, and why you assholes on capitol hill neglect our environment so. Do you not know that Life Liberty and the pursuit of happiness is impossible without trees. Do you not know that you have a constitutional duty to care for these living organism, and that they decorate our beautiful America.
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