Interior Secretary Ken Salazar met with both sides of the Oregon timber conflict to work on a pair of projects designed to form a compromise between timber jobs and spotted owls and salmon.
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar met with both sides of the Oregon timber conflict to work on a pair of projects designed to form a compromise between timber jobs and spotted owls and salmon.
They listened to forest ecology professors Norm Johnson of Oregon State University and Jerry Franklin of the University of Washington describe their ideas for a pair of large-scale forest restoration projects on U.S. Bureau of Land Management property that are also expected to produce a significant supply of logs for struggling mills.
The primary goal of the pilot projects would be to restore healthy forests and fish and wildlife habitat, with the secondary goal of producing timber.
Read more at Capital Press.
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