I have a real problem with the History Channel. They are coming out with this series which glorifies logging. It's called Ax Men. I have seen only the previews, but this link will take you to the History Channel's home page, where you can readily see the ad for the show front and center.

http://www.history.com/

This is what they have listed as "About the show"

The first-ever non-fiction series about the treacherous life of Pacific Northwest timber cutters, AX MEN, premieres Sunday, March 9 at 10pm ET/PT on History. From History and Original Productions, the same team responsible for the mega hit, Ice Road Truckers, this series looks at the legacy that the pioneers of our country laid for the present and future generations of loggers.

Deep in the woods of the Pacific Northwest, rugged men make their living doing one of the most dangerous jobs in history... Logging. Their mission: to retrieve timber perched on mountainsides too steep to access with machines. But this is no easy task.

For more than a hundred years, larger than life characters, many of whom are members of logging families that go back to the time when the West was being settled, have spent their days among towering trees and powerful machines and their nights in outposts far from the comforts of civilization. AX MEN will tell remarkable stories detailing the history of the logging industry, showing how technology has transformed life for today's logger, while the struggle of man versus nature stays the same.

Over the course of thirteen episodes, AX MEN follows four logging crews through a season in the remote forests of northwest Oregon. Plagued by mechanical failures, relentless weather--including a hurricane that ripped through the area--and violent and unpredictable terrain, these brave men risk their lives retrieving the very timber we depend on to build our country. Snapped cables, runaway logs and treacherous machinery are among the many dangers that threaten their lives and safety everyday. Anything and everything can go wrong on these sites and the price of even the simplest mistake can mean death.

This is obviously a careless disregard for our planet perpetrated by yet another series from the controversial History Channel. In one of the previews I saw on TV it shows a "logger" talking, and behind him is a HUGE patch of mountain that has been cleared of trees.   What are these people at the History Channel thinking when they consider a program such as this acceptable???

I for one am highly upset about this series and intend to write the History Channel and give them a piece of my mind!

If anyone else would like to contact them, here is the link they give to contact them:

http://www.history.com/global/feedback/index.jsp?NetwCode=THC

Have you hugged your trees today?

Though this is not a "sample letter" by any means, this is what I wrote to them:

Hello,

I detest the fact that you are glorifying the cutting down of trees by coming out with the show Ax Men. In this time of global warming we should be doing all we can to discourage actions such as mass clearing of trees. Why can't you do a show about saving the rain forests around the world and how dangerous that is, or something of that nature? When you glorify the mass clearing of trees it only serves to make people feel comfortable with exploiting the planet instead of reminding them that we as humans are being neglectful of our planet. Please re-think these decisions in the future and avoid airing programs that make people not only feel at ease with degrading our planet Earth, but actually develop a "desire" to degrade it.

Thank you,

Mrs. Billye Thompson

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