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Note: This issue is no longer available for purchase. "Should We Let Diseased National Forests Die and Burn
In this widely acclaimed report we present a much different, science-based perspective. In the course of a year long investigation we could find no peer reviewed scientific studies that support environmentalist claims concerning the alleged negative impacts of logging. Quite the contrary, we found abundant scientific evidence that restoration forestry - a thinning program with a 40 year history of success - offers the only realistic hope for pulling the West's fire-ravaged National Forests back from the brink of ecological collapse. And if you think restoration forestry is code for "chopping down all the trees" consider this: an increasing number of environmentalists who fear catastrophic fire are embracing it as the only realistic solution for the West's ailing National Forests. This is a fact-filled report featuring interviews with several of forestry's top fire ecologists.
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A coalition of the nation's most powerful environmental organizations is demanding that Congress outlaw timber harvesting in National Forests. Their so-called "Zero Cut" campaign turns on the premise that logging "destroys forests" and that the best way to "save forests" is to set them aside in no-harvest reserves.