Judge clears way for logging in forest

[Algorem]

Posted on Thu, Jul. 21, 2005

http://www.ohio.com/mld/beaconjournal/12188369.htm

Associated Press

CINCINNATI - ...

U.S. District Judge Susan Dlott on Wednesday decided in favor of the U.S. Forest Service in a lawsuit filed by the Buckeye Forest Council and Heartwood environmental groups...


The environmental groups argued that logging would violate the Endangered Species Act and harm the bat. About 200 of the sparrow-sized bats live in the forest in the Ironton area, about 100 miles south of Columbus...

"This is an important case," Crews said. "Protection of the Indiana bat has to be a priority on public lands, particularly in the Wayne."...

The logging projects are likely to be rebid, as is the process for the removal of the dead and damaged timber, Garcia said. Other logging projects now can be pursued, he said.

[shoelace414]

1. why can't logging companies grow their own trees?

afterall.. I thought that was captialism.

[SHRED]

3. Well...

They want the older growth trees. They have turned 98% of our old growth forests into tree farms. Tree farms that a filled with sub par wood and devoid of forest life.

Our shift away from industrial hemp, as a paper source, in the early 1900's has been one of the most criminal acts against all of mankind.

[acmejack]

4. well put

The irrational disregard for our forests and the O2 they provide is indeed criminal. The failure to accept the utility of hemp is simply stupid.

[jojo54]

2. Do we ever hear on the news about a bear in the tree of some

high ranking official's yard???
NO.

Do we ever hear on the news about deer running through the yard of some high ranking official?
NO

Do we ever hear on the news about a snake in the house of some high ranking official?
NO

So, then there's no problem with destroying their natural habitats, is there? :sarcasm:

[blindpig]

5. dead and damaged timber

is why the bats are there in the first place. They're roosting in the standing snags.

Complete bullshit. Forests in the East hardly require the kind of burns natural to the West; our overall higher rainfall and humidity facilitates breakdown of deadwood by bacteria, fungi and other friends.