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Special Evergreen Magazine Issues by Jim Peterson:

• Time is running out for Southwest Forests - Will Congress Act before it's too late?
  (352K PDF Document)
  1st in a Series of Healthy Forests Perspectives

• Will this Environmental Disaster in Montana's Bitterroot Forest be the US Senate's Forest Legacy? (569K PDF Document)
  No. 2 in a Series of Healthy Forests Perspectives

• What the Devil is our Government's Forest Management Objective?
  (3 MB PDF Document)
  No. 3 in a Series of Healthy Forests Perspectives

• RESOURCES COMMITTEE BACKGROUND MEMO

  "Information on Forest Service Decisions Involving Fuels Reduction Activities"
  A Report by the General Accounting Office
  
  A FOREST SERVICE ANOMALY. A hazardous fuels reduction project implemented on at risk National Forest lands face a significantly higher administrative appeals bar than the exact same project would encounter if implemented in Yellowstone National Park (Park Service), the Klamath Basin Wildlife Refuge (Fish and Wildlife Service), or the Canyons of the Ancients National Monument (BLM). That’s because the Forest Service is the only federal land management agency with an administrative appeals process memorialized in statute – a 1993 Appropriation Rider called the Appeals Reform Act.
  SEE COMPLETE REPORT