Plan for post-fire logging a source of heated debate

From: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI) | Date: February 11, 2002| Author: | Copyright information

By JIM ROBBINS

New York Times

Monday, February 11, 2002

Missoula, Mont. -- Not so many years ago the immense fires that blackened the dense forests on the Bitterroot Mountains south of here would have been labeled an unmitigated disaster, millions of board feet of timber down the drain. Many of the trees that were salvageable would have been quickly logged.

But in this land of the environmentally savvy, the management of the publicly owned forests is under a microscope. The biological toll logging can take on a landscape is well known, a ...

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