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Salvage is a word that is much in the air these days, not just in the woods, but also in the lecture halls of universities and in the marble corridors of Washington, D.C. It is a word of power, a soothing word implying many virtues: prudence and profit, rescue and redemption, both exploitation and, somehow, protection. No wonder politicians love it so.

Among the definitions of "salvage" in the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language are these: "the act of saving imperiled property from loss" and "something saved from destruction or waste and put to further use." It couldn't be ...

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	Salvage Logging a Key Issue in Oregon; Bush Plan to Aid Forests After Wildfires Draws Criticism Newspaper article from: The Washington Post ; ...again invoke the urgent need for salvage logging. The president's plan to cut...environmental need for post-fire salvage logging. A series of full-page timber...and future legal challenges to salvage logging. Amid the political posturing...
	Analysis: Salvage logging increases forest-fire threat Transcript from: NPR All Things Considered ; ...NPR) 01-05-2006 Analysis: Salvage logging increases forest-fire threat...mentioning a forestry practice called salvage logging. That's the cutting of dead...fire or disease. Supporters of salvage logging say it helps keep forests healthy...
	Study strikes salvage logging beliefs.(Environment)(Scientists find Biscuit Fire tracts regenerated without replanting, and logging harmed that effort) Newspaper article from: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR) ; ...replanted. What's more, it says salvage logging can increase fire danger rather...believed. They have argued that salvage logging and replanting after a fire is...said past history has shown that salvage logging and replanting lead to healthier...
	Study: Salvage Logging, Replanting Worse News Wire article from: AP Online ; ...the long-standing practice of salvage logging on national forests at a time...the conventional wisdom that salvage logging and planting could reduce the...are cut down and hauled away in salvage logging operations. "This isn't the...
	New rumbling over salvage logging; Debate revives over managing burned forests, as a report on '02 'Biscuit' fire casts doubt on benefits of salvage work.(USA) Newspaper article from: The Christian Science Monitor ; ...evidence, though, suggests that salvage logging increases the risk of future...They reported last week that salvage logging there destroyed about 70 percent...report on negative impacts of salvage logging could hamper the forest product...
	Study questions value of post-fire logging; Scientists find that salvage logging may slow forest recovery Newspaper article from: High Country News ; ...researchers also found that subsequent salvage logging killed three-quarters of the...every right to generalize about salvage logging." Hinckley also points out...by scientific journals. But salvage logging and replanting can speed forest...
	Scientists to Criticize Salvage Logging Legislation in Earth Week Report Newspaper article from: U.S. Newswire ; ...trees on Earth Day voted for the salvage logging legislation that has already...consider legislation to increase salvage logging. Defenders of Wildlife will...science being used to justify salvage logging. Schlickeisen joined two dozen...
	Debate over the impacts of salvage logging continues.(Commentary)(There's almost no data to support salvage logging) Newspaper article from: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR) ; ...current debate about post-fire salvage logging with great interest. I particularly...support arguments for post-fire salvage logging. All the evidence cited is what...Programs to conduct post-fire salvage logging are not free-market enterprises...
	Forest health and the politics of expediency.(Salvage Logging: Point & Counterpoint) Magazine article from: Environmental Law ; ...number of ironies surrounding the salvage logging rider. First, one of the primary...000, or 18%.(18) The salvage logging rider reverses this dynamic by...highlights the fact that the salvage logging rider is not truly intended to...
	In fire's aftermath, salvage logging makes a comeback; Bush administration pushes to cut trees burned by Oregon's Biscuit Fire, science be damned Newspaper article from: High Country News ; ...was largely off-limits to "salvage" logging of fire-killed trees, it...of the potential benefits of salvage logging. The fast-track study by...America was safe from massive salvage logging. The report estimated that...

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