<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Courtesy of the Opinion section of today's (November 27, 2013) Moscow-Pullman Daily News with thanks and appreciation to John Krebs of Potlatch.</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">----------------------------------</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><h1 id="blox-asset-title" style="outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 34px; font-size: 30px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="blox-headline entry-title" style="outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(204, 0, 0); line-height: 38px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Land exchange or legislative fiat?</span></h1><p style="outline: 0px; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; background-image: none; float: none !important;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">For the past five years, many members of the general public, various organizations and public officials have come out in opposition to the Upper Lochsa Land Exchange. They deserve some concrete and public answers from Forest Supervisor Rick Brazell, Sens. Mike Crapo and Jim Risch and Rep. Raul Labrador to the following questions:</span></p><ul style="outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; float: none !important;"><li style="outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; list-style: none outside none; float: none !important;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">What is the land exchange going to be - an administrative decision signed by the Forest Supervisor or a legislative decision? If the latter, then let's make an official closure of the exchange by selecting the "no action" alternative. (Note: the Supplemental Draft Environmental Impact Statement was never within the delegated authority of the forest supervisor.)</span></li><li style="outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; list-style: none outside none; float: none !important;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">As a legislative exchange, will the appraisal follow that of the Federal Land Exchange Program as practiced by the Bureau of Land Management and the Forest Service - "a dollar-for-dollar, value-for-value" transaction?</span></li><li style="outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; list-style: none outside none; float: none !important;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Exactly what national forest lands are being appraised for the legislative proposal? Will that appraisal of the lands be made public and be an integral part of the collaborative process prior to the legislative decision?</span></li><li style="outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; list-style: none outside none; float: none !important;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Will the legislative decision be made public prior to the 2014 election?</span></li></ul><div class="encrypted-content" style="outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; float: none !important;"><p style="text-align: start; outline: 0px; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; background-image: none; float: none !important;"><strong style="outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; float: none !important; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">John Krebs</strong></p></div><div class="encrypted-content" style="outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; float: none !important;"><p style="text-align: start; outline: 0px; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; background-image: none; float: none !important;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Potlatch</span></p></div></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">----------------------------------</div><div><p align="center" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"></p><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: start;"><b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Interview of John Krebs </b><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">(Retired U.S. Forest Service Employee with over 30 years of service) </span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">By Kathy Judson </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">(Friends of the Palouse Ranger District)</span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><a href="http://www.lochsalandexchange.com/Judson_Krebbs_Disc_090910.htm">http://www.lochsalandexchange.com/Judson_Krebbs_Disc_090910.htm</a></span></div><div style="text-align: start;"> </div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><a href="http://www.MoscowCares.com">http://www.MoscowCares.com</a></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"> </div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><div>Tom Hansen</div><div>Moscow, Idaho</div><div><br></div><div>"<span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">There's room at the top they are telling you still</span><span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "> </span></div><span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">But first you must learn how to smile as you kill </span><br style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "><span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">If you want to be like the folks on the hill."</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><font size="3"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);"><br></span></font></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><font size="3"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);">- John Lennon<br></span></font><div> </div></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>