Last year’s timber salvage rider made some people at
the Alliance for the Wild Rockies see red. They channeled some of
their anger into creating a map that pinpoints, with over 500
crimson spots, timber sales in the Northern Rockies. An
accompanying eight-page report addresses the costs of such logging,
its erosive effects on roads and the substitution of green tree
sales for salvage sales. A sprinkling of editorial quotes from
across the nation evolve from incredulity at the rider to
condemnation to regret. There are also some surprising statistics:
the Forest Service road system has grown eight times longer than
the U.S. highway system.
For a free copy of
Logging Without Laws: A Report on the Timber Salvage Rider of the
104th Congress and the map, contact Alliance for the Wild Rockies,
P.O. Box 8731, Missoula, MT 59807 (406/721-5420) or e-mail
awr@igc.apc.org. The report is also available on-line at
http://www.wildrockies.org/awr.
This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline Spotting lawless logging.
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