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Swan View Coalition
3165 Foothill Road
Kalispell, MT 59901
406-755-1379

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Our Principles On Forestry
and Quality of Life

  • As explained further in our Code of Forest Ethics: "All remaining roadless and unlogged areas must be preserved. The continued march into increasingly scarce native forest does not promote sustainability."
  • On "collaborative stewardship": We will consider collaboration on any effort that is consistent with our Code of Forest Ethics. We will not collaborate on planning more logging and road-building in areas that need time to heal or need active restoration such as road obliteration and other watershed restoration efforts.
  • In terms of "stewardship", we reject the term's emphasis on "management" andthe arrogance implied in a steward knowing what is best for the land. We prefer instead to focus on measures that remove impediments to nature's ability to heal of her own accord.
  • We believe that Peace and Quiet are the most rapidly vanishing resources on Earth. See our Code of Quiet for simple acts we can endorse and practice to preserve Peace and Quiet.