[nightdriver]

"Charnley said only 400 of the 11,000 timber jobs that have been lost since 1994 can be blamed directly on the fact that less timber has been cut on federal lands in the region."

Well, duhhh!

The wood products industry in the Northwest supports a lot more jobs than just loggers, sawmill and papermill workers. Each job in the wood industry supports something like 5 other jobs in the area from hospitals to service stations to insurance salesmen.

Does the Forest Service really need to hire enironmental anthropologists to tell them that?

[.cnI redruM]

Friendly editing suggestion. Your ending question, while good, could be stated more succinctly...

"Does the Forest Service really need to hire enironmental anthropologists?"