Sierra Standoff

september 24, 2002  03:12 pm
Sierra Standoff
The Forest Service says our national forests must be logged to save them from fire. Was the Forest Service claiming portions of Lassen National Forest were dead and posing a fire danger just so it could allow commercial logging to proceed? It was, until Chad Hanson came along. "What the Forest Service is about to do, [Hanson] says, is large-scale commercial logging under the guise of fire prevention and environmental restoration," Cosmo Garvin writes in Sacramento News & Review.