Who’s really playing politics with forest management?
By George Terhune, member of the Quincy Library Group (11/10/04) In last week’s From Where I Stand column, Craig Thomas attacked the Herger-Feinstein QLG pilot project for what he claimed were its narrow views of science and forest management. In fact, HFQLG projects have broad based long term objectives, and are supported by science developed at the University of California Blodgett Experimental Forest and elsewhere, and forest management concepts practiced by the Collins Pine Company, the first private forest in America to be certified by the Forest Stewardship Council. The problem with the Sierra Nevada Forest Protection Campaign is that it won’t. It won’t protect the forests, and it certainly won’t protect the communities within and around the forests. With the HFQLG Act, Congress required the Forest Service to implement and demonstrate the effectiveness of the QLG recommendations for fuelbreak construction, group selection and individual tree selection harvest, riparian protection
