Copyright 2000 The Seattle Times Company
The
Seattle Times
May 15, 2000, Monday Final Edition
SECTION: EDITORIAL; Pg. B7; LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
LENGTH: 175 words
HEADLINE:
Pristine forests
Half-measures not enough
BODY:
Your editorial in regards to the U.S. Forest Service proposed road ban in
our national forests was contradictory and off base. The proposal would only
affect roughly half of Washington's unlogged national forests, and it would
leave decisions regarding logging, road building and dirt-bike riding through
the rest of our roadless areas to local officials. Ironically,
it's these same "local" decisions that have left us with more than half of our
public national forests logged, cut by roads and gone forever.
You can't
be in favor of "protecting pristine forests," as you say in the editorial, and
then turn around and approve of logging. I was disappointed to see The Times
buying into this two-faced rhetoric from the Forest Service.
Fortunately, as you mentioned, we all have a chance to comment on this
plan and help shape it into a respectable proposal.
Let's get a plan
that protects all of Washington's pristine national forests instead of only half
of them.
Half-measures won't get the job done.
Allison
Dungan
Seattle
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