Protecting Forests From 'Healthy Forests' Initiative

Public pressure generated by community organizing opposes implementation of the Bush administration's "Healthy Forests" initiative in the Rockies.

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April 4, 2005, 11:00 AM PDT

By Abhijeet Chavan @http://twitter.com/legalaidtech

"...the Healthy Forest Initiative [has made it] much easier for ecologically destructive logging and roadbuilding projects to move forward by weakening keystone laws and limiting environmental analysis and public participation...

Over the past year, activists have fanned out to monitor dozens of these proposed CE logging projects [projects that are being implemented under the new Categorical Exclusions rules], finding many to include industrial logging in old-growth, unroaded wildlands and within important habitat for species...

Fortunately, we have forced the Forest Service to cancel a few of the more egregious timber sales because of our collective forest monitoring efforts combined with public pressure generated through community organizing and field trips."

Thanks to Abhijeet Chavan

FULL STORY: Defending Healthy Forests from the "Healthy Forests" Initiative in the Northern Rockies

Monday, April 4, 2005 in New West Network

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