ent of farm managers and 86 percent of farmers did not live on the farm that they took care of. Now there isnt even an agricultural class. The book goes on to talk about rape and run logging in Montana. We talked about the fly by night corporations in class. Both are the same just different terminology. In Montana, the Champion International Corp. went on a tree cutting binge in Montana, which leveled forests. They then left leaving behind million of people unemployed and over 1,000 square acres stripped. This leaves people poor and the land trashed. This is only one case, but I know we talked about this in class. These corporations suck everything they can out of a community until there isnt anything left for them. They decided to leave one day and never think twice about the people. Thats why Berry has come up with a list of actions a community can do to help their own community flourish. I wont list them all, but I will name a few important ones like: always put local needs first, develop small scale industries, strive to produce as much of the communitys own energy as possible, see that the old and young take care of each other, and so on. These actions would help a community grow stronger in many ways. Conserving Forest Communities deals with forestry in Kentucky. Berry is from Henry County, Kentucky and talks about forestry in Henry County. The landowners have the choice to sell or not, but often times they cant afford not to sell to the timber companies. It is also much like the tobacco industry here in Kentucky as well. That is one of the two views that Berry describes. The other is the large scale corporate version. The corporations strip the land to build a factory on and advertise that is a job opportunity. This kind of business isnt good because it is on such a large scale. It is a huge company in a small town that threatens the idea of decentralization. A good forest economy doesnt call for a huge corp...
