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Wednesday, Jul. 01, 2009

The right way to log, restore forests

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Your June 22 paper featured a full page of coverage (Page B-5) of some surprising agreements between environmentalists and loggers dealing with forests that span the Oregon-California border.

What your readers may find even more interesting is that our nonprofit environmental organization has strongly supported timber sales for many years in the Stanislaus National Forest north and west of Yosemite Park.

The Central Sierra Environmental Resource Center has led local Audubon and Sierra Club groups in joining in support for thinning logging projects that help provide wood while minimizing harm to wildlife and watershed values. Local conservation groups hope someday that private logging treatments in the local region will also shift away from ecologically harmful clearcuts to the thinning logging and restoration treatments that the Forest Service is doing so well in the region.

JOHN BUCKLEY
executive director, CSERC
Twain Harte