00-00-0000 Backing away from public controversy, an Oregon company has passed up a chance to log old trees on the Gifford Pinchot National Forest. Roseburg Forest Products recently told forest officials it would decline to log three controversial timber sales between Mount Adams and Mount St. Helens. Each of the sales had been identified by environmental groups as among 23 on the Gifford Pinchot that include the cutting of old growth. The company's decision comes as the issue of cutting old growth is about to heat up on the Gifford Pinchot. The environmental group ...
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