well...duh! harvesting burnt trees bad fer forest recovery

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New study finds salvage logging bad for burned forests

 

The timber industry and Bush administration officials contend that salvage

logging post-wildfire is the quickest path to reforestation, but a new study

refutes that claim. Published in Science, it found that logging of burned trees

after the 2002 Biscuit fire in Oregon -- the biggest wildfire that year in the

U.S. -- killed about 70 percent of newly sprouted seedlings. After the Biscuit

fire, enviro groups battled the Bush administration in federal court to limit

salvage logging, but lost. Now greens hope the new study will help them make

their case against bills in Congress that would speed up approval for salvage

logging after wildfires.

 

 

straight to the source: The Christian Science Monitor, Brad Knickerbocker, 10

Jan 2006

 

 

straight to the source: MSNBC.com, Associated Press, Jeff Barnard, 06 Jan 2006

 

 

 

 

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