The Forest Service report can be found at www.fs.fed.us/r5/snfpa/.


Comment by poster: If wild areas are called wilderness, couldn't
timber production areas be called "timberness"? G When the revisions
take effect, shouldn't the Bush Administration take action to break up
timber monopolies and immediately make Federal timber more valuable?

Larry, forest sculptor


Dream on Larry. This administration loves monopolys and in small timber
towns, youre pretty much stuck with a single bidder during bad markets.
On the Forestry side - what would be left after a "thinning" that
removed everything up to that diameter? Are we talking about harvest
inside the owl circles? Most of these are roadless areas - that's why
they were left as owl habitat...