Congressman Eyes Preserve Logging Probe

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By MATTHEW DALY, Associated Press Writer
Monday, September 19, 2005

An Oregon congressman called Monday for an investigation into how the Forest Service allowed 16 acres inside a rare tree reserve to be logged as part of a salvage harvest following a 2002 fire.

The tree-cutting inside the 350-acre Babyfoot Lake Botanical Area in southwestern Oregon was discovered by environmentalists last month, after an approved timber sale was completed.

The Forest Service has said employees of the Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest mismarked the area where the logging took place, although just who did it or how the mistake happened has not been determined. Normally trees are marked with stapled tags and paint to show the boundaries of timber sales and reserves within them.

"Given the large size of the illegal harvest, ... I find it difficult to understand how this could have been a casual oversight," said Rep. Peter DeFazio, D-Ore. <snip>

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2005/09/19/national/w161445D11.DTL

[BeFree]

1. Assholes!

They do this just to piss us off. Test us. Time we stood up and passed the test. Someone needs to be fired and put in jail.

I have been working an issue close to home for several years now. There is a congressman who wants to bulldoze a park and reasonable people just don't grok him wanting to fire up that tractor.

He's doing it to piss us off, and destroy a wilderness area, out of pure meanness. He hates wilderness, and he hates public lands. I tell the innocents just that, but they can hardly believe it.

It's the same mentallity that cut those trees in that preserve, I'm certain.