Forest Service admits blunder in logging of rare trees
Source: Houston Chronicle
08/25/05
The Forest Service admitted Wednesday to making a ’serious’ mistake that allowed the logging of 17 acres inside a rare tree reserve as part of the salvage harvest of timber burned by a fire in 2002. The logging inside the 350-acre Babyfoot Lake Botanical Area, created in 1966 to protect Brewer spruce and other rare plant species in the Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest, was discovered last week by environmentalists after the timber was harvested and a forest closure intended to bar protesters was lifted.
Link: http://tinyurl.com/baft9
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
08/25/05
The Forest Service admitted Wednesday to making a ’serious’ mistake that allowed the logging of 17 acres inside a rare tree reserve as part of the salvage harvest of timber burned by a fire in 2002. The logging inside the 350-acre Babyfoot Lake Botanical Area, created in 1966 to protect Brewer spruce and other rare plant species in the Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest, was discovered last week by environmentalists after the timber was harvested and a forest closure intended to bar protesters was lifted.
Link: http://tinyurl.com/baft9
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
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