Protecting Your Public Lands

The Truth about Salvage Logging
and "Forest Health"

The following three pdf's summarize our findings on the effects and controversey surrounding the Timber Salvage Rider of the 104th Congress.

Threats include land management activities that:

• Undermine the public participation process
• Degrade water quality
• Push threatened, endangered, or sensitive wildlife and fish populations closer to extinction
• Subsidize corporate timber industries at the expense of the taxpayer
  
• Sacrifice our national heritage
  
• Further reduce the number of roadless areas in the Northern Rockies

This report includes specific information regarding the ecological, economic, and social implications of the "forest health" myth and the salvage logging rider signed into law last July by President Clinton.

So let's get started with a little Background on Salvage Logging! Following this link will take you on a guided tour of this salvage travesty. Or if you prefer, you can just check out the following index, and go where you want.

The Truth about Salvage Logging and "Forest Health."

• Background to the Salvage Rider Mess.
• Lawless Logging in the Northern Rockies. This fact sheet covers the Beaverhead-Deerlodge, Bitterroot, Boise, Bridger-Teton, Caribou, Clearwater, Flathead, Gallatin, Helena, Idaho Panhandle, Kootenai, Lewis and Clark, Lolo, Nez Perce, Payette, Salmon and Challis, Shoshone, and Targhee National Forests, as well as lands administered by the Bureau of Land Management in the Northern Rockies Ecosystem.
• How to Visualize Board Feet.
• The Clinton Administration's and the Forest Service's Top Ten Reasons for Salvage Logging
• The Economic Reality of Salvage Logging
• Ecological Factsheet Here is some information on the ecological significance of dead and dying trees and the scientific misinformation perpetuated by the Forest Service and the timber industry.
• "Forest Health" and Salvage Index.
• Subversion of the Public Process.
  
  
• Threats to the Northern Rockies--some examples of lawless logging. This is a key to this map prepared by the Ecology Center that depicts the location and relative size of salvage sales. You can download an 11x17, 96k jpeg enlargement of this map.
• The sales. Here is a list of 319 salvage sales, as of May 9, 1996, that have been proposed in the Northern Rockies.
• A few of the sources we used in this presentation

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  The online version of this report was compiled and prepared by the Alliance for the Wild Rockies in conjunction with the Wild Rockies Information Network

  Special thanks to AWR, The Ecology Center, Bill Haskins, Jim Coefield, Bert Kraft, Jeff Juel, John Stanton, Bob Wolf, Green Fire Productions, Native Forest Network, and Art Partridge. Layout and design by Marlene Haas (thanks!), Jennifer Ferenstein, and Jim Coefield. Thanks to the many groups and individuals who made this information packet possible and for their continuing efforts to protect the native ecosystems and wildlands of the Northern Rockies.

  

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