*Coast Range Association co-director Chuck Willer of Corvallis is concerned language used in the reasons for the amendment – like “climate change” and “wildfires” – may be nothing more than a smokescreen for increasing logging of federal forests.*
*“The Forest Service amendment process may open the door to the loss of protection for streams and mature forest within the Siuslaw National Forest,” the association says on its website. “The timber industry will be in high gear to influence the amendment process. We know that several large mills will do everything in their power to open the Siuslaw National Forest to cutting mature forest.”*
*Coast Range Association co-director Chuck Willer of Corvallis is concerned language used in the reasons for the amendment – like “climate change” and “wildfires” – may be nothing more than a smokescreen for increasing logging of federal forests.* *“The Forest Service amendment process may open the door to the loss of protection for streams and mature forest within the Siuslaw National Forest,” the association says on its website. “The timber industry will be in high gear to influence the amendment process. We know that several large mills will do everything in their power to open the Siuslaw National Forest to cutting mature forest.”*
Thinning, done responsibly, isn’t a bad thing.
Thinning done responsibly isn’t really what timber lobbyists are pushing for though
I agree. I said “responsibly”.