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steelhead? See bold, underlined type in article.<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>New sales reignite timber battles <br>
Bush allows harvest of larger, older trees in northern counties</span></font></b><b><font
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<p><strong><b><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Cecilville, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Siskiyou</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceType w:st="on">County</st1:PlaceType></st1:place></span></font></b></strong><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> -- They're
just over the lip of a rutted dirt road and down a precipitous slope about 600
yards: scores of conifers scattered along a creek, all slashed with blue paint.
<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>They differ from the trees comprising the surrounding forest
in that they're bigger -- much bigger, some exceeding 3 feet in diameter. In
fact, they're the last truly large trees in this part of the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Salmon</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">River basin</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>.
And the blue paint means they'll be cut soon. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>This is the Meteor timber sale, one of a series of
controversial timber sales authorized by the Bush administration for the
Klamath, <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Six</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Rivers</st1:PlaceType>,
Shasta-Trinity and Mendocino national forests, all in northwest <st1:State
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">California</st1:place></st1:State>. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Biologists consider the northwest forests one of the richest
terrestrial ecosystems in the hemisphere, supporting a vast array of temperate
woodland species. Heavily logged in the 1970s and 1980s, the forests have been
slowly healing. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>But new sales such as the Meteor, say environmentalists, are
threatening that recovery. They say the sales are an under-the-radar attempt by
the administration to gut the Northwest Forest Plan -- a view rigorously
countered by the U.S. Forest Service. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Scott Greacen, the national forest program coordinator for
the Environmental Protection Information Center (EPIC) in Garberville (Humboldt
County) -- a small organization that is suing the forest service in an attempt
to stop the impending logging -- said the agency has expedited the sales by
overturning key provisions of the plan, a 1994 program devoted to promoting
sustainable forestry practices and enhancing wildlife and fisheries in
Washington, Oregon and northern California. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Foremost among these, said Greacen, are rules that require
surveying and monitoring of sensitive woodland species. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>The rules were given real teeth after a series of lawsuits
in the late 1990s compelled the forest service and U.S. Bureau of Land
Management to apply them rigorously, Greacen said. As a consequence, timber
harvests were greatly reduced throughout the forests -- <b><u><span
style='font-weight:bold'>and the direct beneficiaries, said Greacen, were the
northern spotted owl, the Pacific fisher, the salmon, steelhead, salamanders
and other species that had been so devastated by earlier logging.</span></u></b><u>
<o:p></o:p></u></span></font></p>
<p><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>"These rules are at the heart of the whole Northwest
Forest Plan," said Greacen. "Without them, the plan is just a
document, with no real authority on the ground." <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Greacen said the rule changes will allow logging of the last
old-growth trees over much of the northwest forestlands, fragmenting crucial
wildlife habitat and reducing the value of established reserves where timber
cutting generally is proscribed. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>He <b><u><span style='font-weight:bold'>also criticized a
rule change that shifts the emphasis away from possible logging impacts on
individual watercourses to impacts on entire watersheds -- a change, he said,
that will harm recovering populations of salmon and steelhead.</span></u></b> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><b><u><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>"A sale that will severely degrade a
stream could still be approved because it would be viewed within the context of
the larger landscape," Greacen said. "But that's an absurd rationale,
because the impacts aren't felt across an entire watershed -- they're
concentrated on the specific stream where the logging occurs." <o:p></o:p></span></font></u></b></p>
<p><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Matt Mathes, a spokesman for the forest service's <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:State w:st="on">California</st1:State></st1:place> region,
acknowledged the revisions in the plan, but said the sales merely represent
full implementation of the plan, which authorizes logging in some areas. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Under the original program, Mathes said, numerous reserves
for old-growth trees were identified -- havens for the species dependent on
mature forest systems. Except for thinning programs, timber cutting is
prohibited in the reserves. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>However, Mathes noted, "There were also 'matrix' areas
where some harvest would be allowed, so that the little timber towns of
northern <st1:State w:st="on">California</st1:State>, <st1:State w:st="on">Oregon</st1:State>
and <st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Washington</st1:place></st1:State>
wouldn't be left high and dry." <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>All the sales now authorized are in these matrix areas, said
Mathes. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>"If there's an attempt to undermine (the 1994 plan), it
isn't the forest service that's responsible," said Mathes. "It's the
groups trying to halt these sales. We recognize that stopping all harvest would
have a devastating effect on these rural communities. The survey and management
rules in particular were paralyzing the full implementation of the 1994
plan." <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Art Harwood, the president of Harwood Products, a <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Mendocino</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">County</st1:PlaceType></st1:place> timber mill, welcomed the
changes. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>"Basically, the 1994 plan was no good because it didn't
work," Harwood said. "It specifically stated that there would be
harvests allowed in the matrix areas, but there has been virtually no logging
since implementation. So perhaps this will be an improvement." <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>The wisdom of logging the bigger trees as a way of reducing
wildfire risk -- which the plan listed as a secondary goal of timber harvest --
is another point of contention. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Peg Boland, the forest service supervisor for the <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Klamath</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">National Forest</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>, said cutting some
larger trees in the forest -- such as those from the Meteor sale -- would help
finance fuel reduction programs. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>"One purpose (of the sales) is certainly to get timber
to market, but the revenues we receive are also very helpful in our efforts to
remove excess fuels," Boland said. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>But most environmentalists and some foresters say fire risk
cannot be reduced by removing larger trees. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>"Wildfire risk is best reduced by pulling out the
ladder fuels, which includes thinning stands of smaller trees," said Fred
Euphrat, a <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Sonoma</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceType w:st="on">County</st1:PlaceType></st1:place> consulting
forester whose specialty is sustainable timber production in northwest forest
ecosystems. Euphrat said the plan's combination of reserves and matrix areas is
sound in theory -- but focusing on harvesting larger trees is problematic. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>"That does nothing to reduce wildfire risk -- in fact,
it makes it worse," he said. "Stands of large, widely spaced trees
are relatively resistant to fires." <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>In addition, many biologists say that species associated
with the old- growth forests cannot be adequately protected if larger trees are
removed. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Rocky Gutierrez, a professor of wildlife biology at the <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType> of <st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Minnesota</st1:PlaceName></st1:place> who is an authority on the
northern spotted owl -- long considered the endangered species poster child for
ancient forests -- said judicious thinning can enhance forest biodiversity. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>"By removing the smaller trees, you accelerate the
development of old- growth characteristics," said Gutierrez. "You
also achieve a degree of fireproofing." <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>But if a program of fire hazard reduction involves targeting
larger trees, said Gutierrez, "you have to view that with suspicion."
<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Regardless of how the fight plays out, it is unlikely it
will lead to a renewal of the wholesale clear-cutting that ravaged the
northwest forests in the 1970s and 1980s. That's due partly to the fact that
most of the big firs and pines already have been cut; there are plenty of
trees, but they're generally small. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>And while many professional foresters favor some kind of
regulated harvest of the older trees that remain, others say it's time to leave
the surviving big timber alone. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>"I read an editorial in a forestry journal recently
that said we need to decide that old-growth is off limits, and it resonated
with me," said Laurence Fox, a professor of forestry at <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Humboldt</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">State</st1:PlaceType>
<st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType></st1:place> in Arcata. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>"Old growth is such a lightning rod," he said.
"I'm not sure harvesting it is worth the controversy. We've been saying
for some time now that we understand ecological restoration, that we know how
to rehabilitate damaged watersheds. Perhaps now we need to get on with it."
<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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