Forest Service: Double Sierra logging to ease fire threat

Sac Bee ^ | 6/5/03 | AP

[NormsRevenge]

Accelerated logging in the Sierra Nevada is the best way to ease fire threats, protect wildlife, create jobs and ultimately have more old-growth forests a century from now, the Forest Service said Thursday.

Without a sharp increase in logging aimed at thinning overstocked forests across 11.5 million acres of the Sierra, fish and wildlife habitat will face far greater risk from wildfires, the agency said in an environmental study.

[NormsRevenge]

Wow! Is common sense coming back in fashion?

[Carry_Okie]

Wow! Is common sense coming back in fashion?

No. It's not nearly enough to keep up with the growth rate, much less reduce the net fuel load.

[NormsRevenge]

Ping

[hattend]

I'm impressed and amazed at the same time. Have the eco-terrorists quit/retired/been fired at the National Forest Service?

BTTT

[FairOpinion]

"Have the eco-terrorists quit/retired/been fired at the National Forest Service? "
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I think that under Bush, TRUTH is coming back into fashion, squising out politically correct lies.

[lainie]

It was safe for them to say these things because the study was commissioned under Slick.

[randog]

At least it's a step in the right direction. I for one am tired of spending entire summers sucking in forest fire smoke. I've lived at the base of the Sierras for 40 years and I've never seen fires like we've had for the past 5 years or so.