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National Geographic published an opinion article by Kenneth Brower on why the US Forest Service’s plan to do “salvage logging” in the Rim fire area is a bad idea. He expressed concerns about the habitat damage to flora and fauna from logging burned areas. He also raises the concern of that the Forest Service has tried to limit challenges to logging fire areas. He points out that

Salvage logging is a suspect concept in the West, and litigation and public opposition have slowed these projects in the past. The Forest Service, having learned from this experience, shortened the public comment period on Rim fire salvage to just 30 days.

Read full article at Opinion: Don’t Log Burned Forests—Let Nature Heal Them.