Dead wood.(reform of the U.S. Forest Service) From: Washington Monthly | Date: October 1, 1996| Author: Hodges, Glenn | COPYRIGHT 1996 Washington Monthly Company. 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

The Forest Service is working against protecting the environment in its policies. It backed increasing logging by 80% in the Sierra Nevada despite reports of a declining own population. The salvage logging law approved by Clinton will enable the timber industry to cut without environmental regulation.

When the Clinton Administration made Jack Ward Thomas chief of the Forest Service in late 1993, environmentalists couldn't have been happier. Thomas was the agency's senior wildlife ...