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On January 12 2007, the US Forest Service proposed a new draft management plan that leaves the majority of roadless old growth forests open to commercial logging. The Tongass National Forest is now the only National Forest in the country where roadless areas are not protected from logging and road construction. The irony is that the new plan is required by a court decision that found the Forest Service had illegally doubled the estimate of market demand for timber. This poor analysis was driving them to propose to log over 250 million board feet in wild forests although the timber industry had only bought less than 50 millon board feet on average over the last six years. The Bush administration should be focused on protecting all of the wild roadless forests of the Tongass -- not proposing more logging schemes at taxpayer expense.
My only concern is that we're not going to find many people or organizations advocating logging in national forests.
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this works for me
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