UNITED STATES
Stop National Forest Decline
The Washington Post comes out editorially in favor of much
reduced cutting on United States National Forests. These lands
are being rapaciously logged and are in systematic ecological
decline. This is being done often at an economic loss. There are
a number of essential actions that must be taken: ecosystem
management must be more consistently practiced, no more road
construction in wilderness areas, zero cut in remaining virgin
forests, landscape planning to buffer and allow more pristine
areas to remain so, and less intensive harvesting on secondary
regrowth. These lands belong to the American people and not to
the timber industry and their bureaucratic friends. Its nice to
see mainstream media awakened to the widespread dramatic forest
decline being paid for by U.S. taxpayers.