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- From: mikeq@freddy.CNA.TEK.COM (Mike Quigley)
- Newsgroups: rec.backcountry
- Subject: Re: USFS Backcountry Fees
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- Date: 23 Nov 92 17:13:14 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov20.223233.6903@nsisrv.gsfc.nasa.gov> dsc@gemini.tmc.edu (Doug S. Caprette Bldg. 28 W191 x3892) writes:
- >
- >The amount of timber sold from the National Forests is determined by Congress,
- >not by the USFS.
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- Not quite so. Congress decides the amount of timber sold based upon
- USFS assessments of what is ``harvestable.''
- The harvestable amount is grossly overinflated to please logging-backed
- congressmen and the logging industry, and to
- prepetuate the Forest Service bureaucracy (which
- is heavily logging-dependent).
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- Example: In the northwest, many recently replanted clearcuts are counted as
- mature, harvestable forests by the USFS. Critics call these the
- ``phantom forests.''
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- Now, instead of x million acres of harvestable forest, all of a sudden
- Congress sees XX million acres! So, let's cut more logs!!
-
- Neat way to cook the books, huh?
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- Mike
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