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Article: The new timber cops. (new operation of the U.S. Forest Service) (includes related articles)
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- American Forests
- Article date:
- September 1, 1994
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A cadre of smart, determined professionals is closing ranks to try to brighten the Forest Service's tarnished enforcement image.
A late-April dump of snow had closed down of the most logging traffic coming ou of the Sierra Nevadas near Grass Valley, California. That was a disappointment. I'd wanted Ken Carlton, a veteran Forest Service special agent with whom I was riding, to show me how thieves work a timber sale.
So, on to Plan B.
"Ken," I said, "let's check a few Forest Service pickups to see if the TSAs [timber-sale administrators] are taking care of their paint."
That was a loaded suggestion, and he knew it. I was talking about tracer ...