21 October 2005

Jeremy Sinkinson's Rant

Rainforest Action Network pages on Boise's promise to stop logging growth forests. This includes links to Boise's policy statement. Related news and links: Federal government's Healthy Forests Restoration Act Chris Maser, 1996. Salvage Logging: The Loss of Ecological Reason and Moral Restraint, International Journal of Ecoforestry, 12(1):176-178. Timothy Ingalsbee, Salvaging timber; scuttling forests: The ecological effects of post-fire salvage logging. Four-year study in Amazonia shows that selective logging is more damaging thatn clearcutting. Scientific American: Selective Logging Fails to Sustain Rainforest