National fire plan going up in smoke. (Notebook).(logging of mature and old-growth trees sanctioned by George W. Bush administration)(Brief Article)

Journal of Soil and Water Conservation, July, 2002

In a recent Los Angeles Times article, the National Director of the Sierra Club, Chad Hanson, wrote about his dismay on the Bush Administration's recent justification of increasing logging mature and old-growth trees in national forests as an answer to the threat of fires. Hanson maintains that the Administration's own national fire plan concluded that the removal of mature trees from forests increases the severity of fires. So why are they using the threat of fires to justify logging mature trees?

Hanson is using two recent memos--dealing with the Northwest Forest Plan and the Sierra Nevada Framework--as his proof that the Administration is moving toward allowing logging companies increased access to public forestland. He sees these recent happenings as...

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