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New Rules to Triple Amount of Logging Allowed in California's Sierra Nevada.
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San Jose Mercury News (San Jose, California) (viaKnight-Ridder/Tribune Business News)
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January 23, 2004
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Copyright informationCOPYRIGHT 2004 San Jose Mercury News. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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Byline: Jessie Mangaliman
Jan. 23--The U.S. Forest Service enacted new rules Thursday that would triple the amount of logging allowed in 11.5 million acres of national forest land in California's Sierra Nevada, calling it a necessary step to prevent catastrophic wildfires like the one that ravaged Southern California last year.
"It's wrong to get focused on how much is going to be removed," said Forester Jack Blackwell, of the Pacific Southwest Region. "This is about protecting our forests from wildfires."
Environmentalists quickly denounced the new rules, calling them a "guise of fire protection" for California's forests. They challenged the Forest Service's ...
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