Salvage Logging a Key Issue in Oregon
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The massive Biscuit fire that scorched Siskiyou National forest two summers ago has become a wedge issue in the presidential race in Oregon, a swing state where the contest remains too close to call.
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By Backus, Perry  The Blackfoot Challenge and Nature Conservancy's plan to preserve up to 88,000 acres of Plum Creek Timber Co. lands in and around the Blackfoot Valley took a big step forward late last week.
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The revival of the New River Valley chapter of Trout Unlimited is good news. Chapter members have worked this year to remove trash from Peak Creek and its banks and to install small log structures on the stream bed to provide cover for trout.
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A federal appeals court ruled Friday that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service violated the Endangered Species Act when it approved a 22,000-acre logging project that affects northern spotted owl habitat in southern Oregon.
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Industrial logging is damaging Central Africa's pristine forests and threatening an important ecosystem, the Woods Hole Research Center in Massachusetts says.
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An Oregon senator is threatening to filibuster a must-pass spending bill if Congress does not extend payments to rural counties hurt by cutbacks in federal logging.
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TO THE EDITOR:           After visiting some of the western public forests, grasslands and parks, I understand much better about the scars left from drilling and mineral exploration. Vehicle tracks will be there for centuries just like the wagons of early settlers have left their mark.
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By Denis Cuff, MEDIANEWS  When Contra Costa County crews cleared silt from the Walnut Creek channel 11 years ago, environmentalists accused them of scraping away soil and plants where birds and animals were living.
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By Tri-City Herald, Kennewick, Wash.  May 30--Unnecessary destruction of trees in the Tri-Cities is very nearly an unholy thing.   After all, this isn't a natural environment for them. It takes much human toil and ingenuity to bring them here and allow them to flourish.
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By Dennis Lien, Pioneer Press, St. Paul, Minn. Jun. 18--For a couple of weeks in May, a dispute over off-highway vehicle use in Minnesota's state forests appeared to be resolved. The Legislature had just passed a bill outlining where those machines could go, and Gov.
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Logging dead trees after a wildfire and planting new ones can make future fires worse, at least for a decade or two while the young trees create a volatile source of fuel, scientists found in a study that contradicts conventional practices.
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By Steve Mayes, The Oregonian, Portland, Ore.  Jun. 13--Despite repeated warnings from the state, a prominent Clackamas  County real estate developer allowed his herd of water buffalo to foul a creek  with fecal bacteria, stir up sediment and destroy streamside vegetation.
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Researchers at a national science laboratory in south-central Washington have found a way to achieve in days what takes Mother Nature millions of years &#151; converting wood to mineral.
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From the ruins of a failed logging venture in Chile's Tierra del Fuego, an effort to manage and preserve the world's southernmost old-forest wilderness is about to begin.
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By Erik Robinson, The Columbian, Vancouver, Wash.  Sep. 11--Dennis Buttolph glanced at ever-darkening smoke rising from the slope and grabbed a hose.
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By WILLIAM McCALL  PORTLAND, Ore. - A federal appeals court ruled Friday that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service violated the Endangered Species Act when it approved a 22,000-acre logging project that affects northern spotted owl habitat in southern Oregon.
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Near a rock formation twisting into the Arizona sky, the desert floor has been torn up by off-road vehicles. A tattered VCR and a bullet-riddled washing machine further scar the landscape. Tonto is one of many national forests that suffer environmental damage caused by thoughtless, even unscrupulous, visitors. And the U.S. Forest Service doesn't have the cash or manpower to tackle the problem.