The 'A to Z' Timber Sale - How to Spell The Death of a Forest

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Wed, 04/01/2015 - 10:00am to 10:15am
Three days of Air Cascadia leading up the A to Z Timber Plan, killing our last few trees

Ever heard of an ‘A to Z’ timber sale?  You know…when a private logging company pays off the Forest Service for the freedom to “manage” the land.?

No.
You haven’t heard of it and that is exactly what the timber industry needs – secrecy, complacency ignorance – in order to get away with the murder  of a forest. 
        Since the Forest Service has been paid a million dollars for the
contract in which Vaagen Brothers Timber will do all the work associated with the sale,
perhaps the FS will actually make a profit. This aspect needs to be further
investigated. If that is the case, what a motivator for the agency!
 
        We need to get ahead of the curve on this issue, if not I am pretty
sure that it will spread to other Forests and other timber sales. You know
what to do, write your legislators, the Chief of the Forest Service, letters
to the editor, op ed pieces, news releases, a letter to the Colville
National Forest, etc. It also might be a good idea to encourage your friends
in the FS to contact FSEEE and ask them to get involved. I have talked with
Andy Stahl about this sale-but he's on the fence. Let's make the public aware
that profit driven timber corporations will gain an inordinate amount of
control of their forests.
 
        You realize that we are among the few in the country who are aware
that this is happening! It also a great poster child for what's wrong with
collaboration process-just turn the management of the timber sale program
over to profit driven timber corporations. 

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