-Caveat Lector-
Ain't it *rich* so to speak. The enviros don't have a problem in the world
with removing 8000 trees from Grand Canyon Park but they are concerned
about the "means" Apparently it was suggested using horses instead of
trucks to haul the cut down trees.
Sec of Interior Babbitt (who is consided to be a God by some enviros)
claims this so called experiment is "necessary." I would point out that
if some logging company had made the suggestion, the enviros as a whole
would have been foaming out the mouth, but when it comes from their own,
and from "god" Bruce, then its ok.
Apparently while the enviros still worship "old growth" we are to realize
that growth less then 15 inches is considered expendible.
Never mind the fact that those trees are the "old growth" of the future.
Grand Canyon Plans Experiment and the Removal of 8,000 Trees
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
PHOENIX -- A proposed experiment in Grand Canyon National Park would mean
cutting down about 8,000 trees, and though environmentalists support the
project's ends, they are concerned about the means.
If allowed this summer, it would apparently be the first time one of
America's 52 national parks had been logged. But park officials said the
experiment would not be a timber operation.
The experiment is intended to find the most effective way to improve the
overall health of the forest by creating restoration areas for cutting and
controlled burning. Park officials released a draft environmental assessment
this week indicating that about 8,000 trees would be removed in the project.
They also scheduled public hearings for next month in Arizona and Utah.
Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt said the experiment was necessary because
"for many years we suppressed naturally occurring fire and, without meaning
to, created artificial, unhealthy and dangerous forests."
The Sierra Club and the Grand Canyon Trust agree that something must be
done about years of fuel buildup in the park, which they say could cause
fires, insect and disease outbreaks. But some environmentalists fear too many
trees will be cut down.
"You can always cut down more trees, but you can't put them back," said a
Sierra Club forest specialist, Sharon Galbreath. "Should we be experimenting
in a national park, with a method that resembles full-scale logging?"
R. V. Ward, a Grand Canyon Park biologist, says trees are cut all the
time," like in road-widening projects.
He said the experiment must be conducted in the park because no place else
could duplicate the conditions.
Ward said every effort will be made to prevent damage to the forest,
including the possibility of using horses instead of trucks to haul cut trees.
According to the plan for the Grand Canyon, none of the trees cut will
exceed 15 inches in diameter and none will be sold commercially, a park
spokeswoman, Maureen Oltrogge, said on Friday.
Sunday, January 24, 1999
<A HREF="aol://4344:104.nytcopy.6445375.574106743">Copyright 1999 The New York
Times</A>
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