These trees needs to stay in the forest....fire does serve an ecological purpose, and taking what the fire left behind does not serve life...but lets not forget that this culture only serves death: McClintock argues the salvage timber sales need to move quickly to prevent the wood from decaying to the point where it is useless for sawmills. “But this can’t happen if salvage is indefinitely delayed by bureaucratic processes or the usual litigation filed by extremist environmental groups,” he said in a news release. The fire, the largest in the Sierra Nevada’s recorded history, started Aug. 17 and burned more than a quarter-million acres in the national forest and Yosemite. It did varying amounts of damage to mature forest, plantations from past fires, brushland and other acreage. McClintock’s bill, which passed the House Natural Resources Committee on Nov. 14, would exempt the salvage logging from the environmental reviews by the U.S. Forest Service, appeals by the public and further reviews by the courts. It had called for logging in Yosemite, which allows removal only of hazardous trees, but that provision was removed. Buckley said the two Tuolumne County mills owned by Sierra Pacific Industries, at Standard and Chinese Camp, can run for several months on timber already available from the Rim fire. This includes logging on company land near Cherry Lake, which is regulated by the state, and trees that the national forest is taking out promptly near roads, campgrounds and other sites because they are hazards to the public. mercedsunstar/2013/11/27/3361393/rim-fire-salvage-bill-raises-concern.html
Posted on: Thu, 28 Nov 2013 12:23:27 +0000
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