American Rivers is now advocating for logging operations
+ American Reservoirs, excuse me, Rivers is one of those faux-conservation organizations that exists mainly as a place for rich people and corporations to drop a load of money and pretend they’re doing good while knowing that nothing much will ever be done with it, certainly nothing that would disrupt the circulation of commodities or the ongoing industrialization of the West. America Rivers’ primary goal, other than filling its coffers with corporate loot, is to pass laws or engage in regulatory compromises that set the bar so they often end up damaging the very rivers they claim they want to protect. Case in point: American Rivers is now advocating for logging operations inside the boundaries of the nation’s Wild and Scenic River Corridors, the riparian strips of land adjacent to undamned and pristine rivers that are currently treated as the near equivalent of wilderness areas, where no mark of industrial man should intrude. American Rivers is starting their ruinous experiment on th...
