RSS Feed
LA Times: The U.S. Forest Service is proposing an extensive salvage operation to log dead trees on about 46 square miles of timberland charred in last year's massive Rim fire in the Sierra Nevada.
The project would be one of the largest federal salvage efforts in California in years. If approved, it could yield more lumber than the combined annual output of all the national forests in the state.
But it is already triggering a fight by some environmentalists who argue that the post-fire logging would......
Read Complete Article at Water Conserve: Water Conservation RSS News Feed
Extensive salvage logging proposed for Rim fire area
Posted by LA Times: Bettina Boxall on January 4th, 2014
Posted in Water Conservation