Forest health and the politics of expediency.(Salvage Logging: Point & Counterpoint) From: Environmental Law | Date: June 22, 1996| Author: Axline, Michael | COPYRIGHT 1996 Lewis & Clark Northwestern School of Law. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

In 1996, Congress attacked a "salvage logging rider" to the appropriations bill for the Department of the Interior and related agencies. This rider prohibits its citizens from enforcing the nation's environmental laws against much of the U.S. Forest Service's timber sale program Although the rules of the House and Senate prohibit attaching such riders to appropriations bills, the sponsors of the legislation (including Senator Slade Gorton) convinced their colleagues that the rider was necessa...

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