FOREST SERVICE: GREEN GROUP ASKS IG TO PROBE TONGRASS TIMBER SALES

Posted on Apr 03, 2017 |

From: E & E News

“Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, or PEER, says the Forest Service allowed contractors at the two 2015 timber sales to cherry-pick the trees they wanted to remove without much oversight. As a result, more valuable western red cedar and Sitka spruce trees were cut and removed, while most of the white hemlock that the service wanted removed in the name of forest health was left standing, the group charged."

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