🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <6fd_9506211300@salata.com> Doug.Bashford%ow@salata.com (Doug Bashford) writes:
    >Whenever Murkowski's bill eventually turns up, a more
    >immediate threat to America's largest national forest -- and
    >to all national forests -- is legislation to allow logging
    >companies to clearcut U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land
    >Management lands under the guise of salvaging dead and dying
    >trees.
    >
    >A House-approved measure -- tacked onto a Contract-inspired
    >bill to rescind $17 billion in previously authorized spending
    >-- would not only mandate a 6.2 billion board-foot salvage
    >logging program on federal lands over the next two years, but
    >would exempt it from compliance with U.S. environmental laws.
    >A Senate version, while deleting the target harvest levels,
    >similarly suspends "all applicable federal laws" with respect
    >to logging on Forest Service or BLM lands.
    >
    >"This is logging without laws," said Melanie Griffin,
    >director of the Club's Land Protection Program. "It's
    >completely outrageous."

It is outrageous -- the dead and fallen logs will not be up to logging
standards much longer, and the price of wood for home building has almost
doubled in some parts of the country.

And the eco-fascists really just don't want people to increase their
standard of living.


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