Crossroads in the National Parks
The New York Times asks who the Bush administration is really serving with its unnecessary rewrite of rules governing the national parks. The new rules emphasize maximum recreation for today's users, including greatly expanded off-road motorized recreation, at the expense of preservation of natural values for future generations.
http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/022706EA.shtml
In Fire's Wake, Logging Study Inflames Debate
Graduate students in forestry at Oregon State University have raised an extraordinary ruckus by publishing a federally-funded study that says logging burned forests does not make sense. One of the students defended the science at a congressional field hearing on Friday. The results blow holes in the rationale for legislation sponsored by Greg Walden (R-Oreg) to expedite post-fire logging.
http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/022706EB.shtml
http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/022706EA.shtml
In Fire's Wake, Logging Study Inflames Debate
Graduate students in forestry at Oregon State University have raised an extraordinary ruckus by publishing a federally-funded study that says logging burned forests does not make sense. One of the students defended the science at a congressional field hearing on Friday. The results blow holes in the rationale for legislation sponsored by Greg Walden (R-Oreg) to expedite post-fire logging.
http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/022706EB.shtml
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