Saturday, August 30, 2003

Montana environmental groups vow to oppose all salvage logging and the Healthy Forests Initiative:


"We think salvage logging impedes the recovery of these burned areas," said Jake Kreilick, executive director of the National Forest Protection Alliance. "We are opposed to salvage logging."


And Ag Undersecretary Mark Rey responds:

"I suppose these folks will appeal and litigate projects enough so some of the work needed to be done will in fact be stopped," Rey said. "And those moonscapes will stand as a monument to that idiocy."


For the entire article go here.

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