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Article: Signs of Peace in America's Timber Wars; Under Obama, Restoration Revives
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- The Washington Post
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- June 28, 2009
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On a steep slope of the Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest, a
crew of young men with chain saws and hard hats worked their way
through an old neglected clearcut, cutting brush and young trees and
piling the remains to be burned later.
Freshly trained and closely supervised, the crew took care to
leave behind volunteer sproutings of dogwood, madrone and
huckleberry as well as the sugar pine and Douglas fir planted here
20 years ago. The pattern is designed to grow into a healthy forest
less vulnerable to wildfire and better for fish and wildlife, rather
than just turn out timber.
The Hope Mountain Stewardship Project, taken off the shelf with
$1.4 million from President Obama's economic ...