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In "The Donato-Law Fiasco - Mixing Politics & Science: Alchemy at OSU", Evergreen Magazine discloses our findings following an in-depth investigation of the sweeping controversy surrounding Oregon State University's handling of a research paper written by College of Forestry graduate student, Daniel Donato. Mr. Donato's paper, which was published by Science magazine, concludes that salvage logging conducted in the aftermath of southern Oregon's 2002 Biscuit Fire, did more harm than good. Many observers believe Mr. Donato's research was deliberately designed to discredit the earlier Sessions Report, in which several eminent OSU scientists laid out several alternatives for restoring decimated by the Biscuit Fire. The Sessions Report was immediately taken to task by anti-salvage activists because it detailed probably future results for each alternative it presented, including the consequences associated with a completely natural recovery. Several scientists who worked on the Sessions Report later tried to convince Science editors to delay publication of Mr. Donato's paper until they could write a rebuttal - a request the editors rejected. Because post-fire salvage has become such a controversial issue, we also look back at the outcomes of salvage work conducted in the aftermath of several of the West's great wildfires. * * * * * Read Jim Petersen's recent speeches before the Resource Advisory Committee in Lolo, Montana on November 27, 2007 and before Piedmont Virginia Community College in Charlottesville, Virginia on October 11, 2007.
"Your Political Will Doesn't Mean A Damned Thing" (11/27/07)
(Click here) * * * * * Be sure to read Jim Petersen's two Wall Street Journal columns: "Death of a Sawmill" chronicles the last days of the Owens & Hurst Lumber Company - and explains why western lumbermen who survived the 1990s collapse of the federal timber sale program no longer have much interest in doing business with the federal government. To view this 12/29/05 article, click here. * * * * * "Owl Be Damned" takes aim at the failed hypothesis that led the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service to list the northern spotted owl as a threatened species in June, 1960. New evidence suggests the hypothesis - that harvesting in old growth forests was directly responsible for declines in spotted owl populations - was wrong. Owl numbers continue to decline despite the fact that there has been no harvesting in old growth forests since the owl was listed. Moreover, owls are now showing up in all the wrong places. The fact that environmentalists were able to use the owl as a surrogate for old growth - to the apparent detriment of owls - is reason enough why the 32-year-old Endangered Species Act needs to be modernized. Click here to view this 2/18/06 article. * * * * * Have you joined the Evergreen Foundation yet? Issues of Evergreen Magazine are distributed to Foundation members as part of their yearly membership. JOIN ON-LINE TODAY!
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