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Article: RECREATIONISTS FACE OFF IN NEW DEBATE OVER GIFFORD PINCHOT.(Getaways)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- February 1, 2001
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The loud whine of an engine shatters the silence along a hiking trail deep within the Gifford Pinchot National Forest, drawing the ire of longtime forest activist Susan Saul.
The noisemaker isn't a chain saw.
It's a motorcycle. With federal logging down to a fraction of the Northwest's timber heyday of the 1980s, the old conflict between loggers and environmentalists has faded.
Instead, as one presidential administration gives way to a new one, an emerging debate on national forests has shaped up between different kinds of recreationists.
In Southwest Washington's sprawling Gifford Pinchot National Forest, the vast tracts of forest and ...