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I have to say that I continue to be totally bewildered that CARB is
even considering the possibility that cutting down trees, even if
planting new ones, can be considered a method for offset. Where
does one start to make sense of that?! First, how can the carbon
used up by inputs to cut the trees, inputs to send them off to
whatever may be their end use, and the inputs for those end uses
possibly be considered as a trade for somebody else's carbon
outputs?  How does cutting down a tree that sequesters carbon and
replacing it with a sapling provide the same carbon savings??? I
could go on in this vein, but perhaps I'm looking at it in all the
wrong way!  It has been offered to me that this is just a gimme to
SPI in response to a giveya for CARB.  It may be that "CARB" isn't
the real recipient, but someone(s) who can push this decision. 
Perhaps CARB has just fallen down the rabbit hole like Alice and
needs to come back to the real world.  None of these satisfy and
the justifications you provide for PR don't either. 

Nevertheless, regardless of my efforts to understand the road CARB
is going down, my response is that this cap & trade process
WRONG!!!!  Please, act with integrity.  Respect the citizens of
this state, the nation, the world.  California has been a leader,
even with flaws, on protection of the environment.  This direction
you are taking turns everything else around that we are trying to
accomplish in response to climate change, carbon pollution, etc.,
etc.

I am not vain enough to believe that my little email of
disappointment and begging is going to steer your big boat in a
wholesome direction.  But, maybe you will receive enough little
emails, especially from very intelligent and persuasive people,
that you will listen and stop this travesty.

This is being sent by an Amador County resident who is familiar
with SPI. I don't want to see the slash they will be leaving behind
by clear cutting in this county going to the probable new biomass
facility in Buena Vista that will be counting on that feedstock to
keep it running.

Thank you,
Rebecca Brown
rebeccabrown@volcano.net