Biscuit logging details released

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full article with maps at Register-Guard

June 2, 2004

Biscuit logging details released

By Diane Dietz 
The Register-Guard
  
Timber companies stand to gain 370 million board feet of lumber in the massive Biscuit Fire salvage sale, the U.S. Forest Service announced Tuesday.

National environmental groups, members of Congress and city councilors from across the state raised a chorus of criticism over the agency's plans for logging fire-killed trees in the area burned in 2002.
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For more information, go to www.biscuitfire.com.


BISCUIT FACTS
• The fire: In summer 2002, lightning-ignited fire burned for 120 days, blackening 499,965 acres in and around Kalmiopsis Wilderness.

• The damage: Fire burned millions of trees, destroyed habitat for plants and animals on the threatened, endangered and sensitive species lists. Taxpayers spent $150 million to put it out.

• The politics: President George W. Bush made salvaging burned logs a key issue in his drive to increase logging in the Pacific Northwest. That's political payback for campaign donations from timber firms, environmental groups charge.

• Public sentiment: Of 22,856 people who submitted comments to U.S. Forest Service, 95 percent opposed agency's plan to log burned timber, according to an environmental group's count that was not disputed by federal officials.


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[rucky]

1. wow...how much is that worth?

do you suppose?

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