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- From: dean@vexcel.com (Dean Alaska)
- Subject: Who ignores science?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.173620.28293@vexcel.com>
- Organization: VEXCEL Corporation, Boulder CO
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 17:36:20 GMT
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- In response to those who only complain about environmentalists ignoring
- science:
-
- WASHINGTON - U.S. Forest Service officials are suppressing a
- report they had requested of their own wildfile biologists
- on the Tongass National Forest in Alaska in order to allow
- timber companies to continue logging the largest and oldest
- trees.
-
- The report, obtained through the Freedom of Information Act,
- concluded that unless logging operations are scaled back by
- nearly a fourth, several species of animal, including
- goshawks, owls, brown bears and wolves, are at risk of
- disappearing from large parts of the forest. All are found
- nowhere else in the world.
-
- The biologists, who have worked for the last two years to
- document the wildlife species that need mature, old-growth
- forests to survive, say they have been given poor performance
- reviews, directed to water down their findings and told not
- to release their report.
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- "Wine is living proof that God loves us and likes to see us happy"
- - Benjamin Franklin dean@vexcel.com
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