U.S. OKs Plan to Log Timber Burned in Fire
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From Times Wire Reports
The U.S. Forest Service signed off on a plan to log timber burned in the huge Biscuit fire, an effort that has become the focus of intense political and scientific debate over fire and logging.
Environmentalists are expected to challenge parts of the plan, which is also opposed by timber officials, who said it didn’t go far enough to prevent future wildfires and replant forests.
The plan calls for harvesting 370 million board feet of timber in southwestern Oregon over the next two years.
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