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Article: U.S. Forest Service Plan Calls for More Logging in California's Sierra Nevada.
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- June 6, 2003
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By Stuart Leavenworth, The Sacramento Bee, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Jun. 6--Putting some flesh on a proposal that has triggered months of rhetoric but few hard details, the U.S. Forest Service on Thursday released a 372-page management plan for the Sierra Nevada that would nearly triple logging, with most of it coming in the Plumas and Lassen national forests near Quincy.
The plan, a revision of a Clinton-era blueprint for the Sierra, proposes to reduce habitat for the California spotted owl so the Forest Service can more aggressively thin forests to reduce wildfires.
Forest Service officials say the revisions will save ...