James Whittier Parker: “I think it is well-intentioned, but they do not know the difference between a skidder and a knuckle boom. I must tell my…”

“I think it is well-intentioned, but they do not know the difference between a skidder and a knuckle boom. I must tell my colleagues that I do not care for the Dicks amendment a whole lot. I am going to support it simply because it is better than the amendment of the gentleman from Massachusetts, because this gentleman's amendment is devastating. We do not have to have roads in national forests. All we have to do is allow people an easement to go in, cut the timber and come out. I would agree that it would be a subsidy if that logging company or that logger took the road with him. But he does not keep the road, he leaves it there for the Federal Government to have. I must tell my colleagues that that road is not just any road. In the private sector they go in and they build temporary roads. And those temporary roads, they do not last. They are temporary. But I must also tell my colleagues that the roads that the Federal Government requires, the Forest Service says it must be built to these certain specifications. They are interstates without blacktop. They have got drainage, concrete, culverts. Everything we would ever want on a road, they have it.”