Contrast this with the timber felled by Mount St. Helens. There the enviros would not let the felled timber be harvested so they let it rot in place instead.
Then consider that Daschle passed legislation that allowed timber to be cut in his state and precluded the enviro-wackos from suing.
"Contrast this with the timber felled by Mount St. Helens. There the enviros would not let the felled timber be harvested so they let it rot in place instead."
Correction: I was working as a timber faller in No. CA at the time. ST Helens went off three weeks before my wedding day or I would have joined my fellow cutters that were called to go up to WA state and cut downed timber.
The ash took a terrible toil on the saws and the men. Chains were thrown away after a few minutes work. The logs were filled with mud and rocks. All trees that could be harvested were taken. Most were hauled out by Helicopter crews due to the lack of logging roads.
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"The largest Pacific Northwest salvage effort of the past quarter-century occurred after the eruption of Mount St. Helens, when loggers over a period of years cut more than 1 billion board feet of timber affected by the 1980 blast."