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New rules will Broaden firefighting, Logging in U.S. forests
Associated Press ^
| May 31, 2003
| Robert Gehrke
Posted on 05/31/2003 6:09:15 AM PDT by wallcrawlr
Edited on 04/13/2004 3:39:26 AM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The Bush administration is about to drop a requirement to conduct environmental studies before logging or burning trees to prevent forest fires. And it wants to end consultations over whether such actions would affect endangered species.
Environmentalist organizations said the new rule is a carte blanche for loggers.
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: enviralists; environment; forest; logging
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To: risk; Carry_Okie; forester; sasquatch
The picture you have posted is a prime example of what Mark is talking about. He has posted similar picture himself. These trees were too close together. Judicious logging would have kept the fire on the ground and helped native species. Now the natives are dead and the first to grow will be invasive introduced exotics. Who will pay for the restoration (weed removal) that now has to be done and who do we hold responsible for the damage?
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06/01/2003 5:59:35 PM PDT
by
farmfriend
( Isaiah 55:10,11)
To: risk
Anyway, this act looks quite reasonable to me. It doesn't change the rules that require environmental impact studies before logging in the monuments and national parks, so it just encourages thinning where we've already had a lot of human activity. Nears as I can figure, this is not an act; it is an administrative change in regulation. Also, it does not appear to me that the Bush administration is looking to harvest trees in monuments or national parks. IMHO, they are just trying to thin out overgrown second growth forests...forests that, as you say, have been altered by human activity.
Personally, I like your latest post risk. If you are interested in further dialogue, please feel free to ping me.
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06/01/2003 9:31:19 PM PDT
by
forester
(Reduce paperwork -- put foresters back in the forest!)
To: kstewskis; farmfriend; Carry_Okie; Grampa Dave
Have any of you read the text of this thing??? Did we win?
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06/02/2003 9:32:53 AM PDT
by
EBUCK
(FIRE!....rounds downrange! http://www.azfire.org)
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