The Forest Service's catch 22; it's hard to see the forest when you've cut down all the trees.

From: Washington Monthly | Date: January 1, 1990| Author: O'Toole, Randal | Copyright information

THE FOREST SERVICE'S CATCH - 22

At the end of a Forest Service road in the middle of California's Sequoia National Forest, I found ground zero. Nearly all the trees on a 30-acre hillside had been "clear-cut" and dragged away. Stumps as large as dinner tables littered the landscape; soil eroded into a stream, which, newly exposed to the sun, was filling with thick green algae that smothered other aquatic life. Though the trees had been cut two years before my visit, almost ...

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