We have too many lawyers and judges with little to no scientific knowledge making too many scientific decisions.
Biological decisions should be made by the forest service experts with life long experiences in the forests and with graduate degrees in forestery.
They may not be perfect, but the foresters will make better scientific decisions than the lawyers.
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The environmental groups claim in their lawsuit that the Forest Service used poor science to determine which trees died or are dying because of the fires and failed to compensate for the logging's impact on the California spotted owl.
SHOOT THE DAMN SPOTTED OWLS!!!!!!!!!!
The good ole' spotted owl issue again. One of the most popular sweatshirts in Humboldt County has a picture of a logger on it, and the words "endangered species".
I have a picture of the Barkhouse burn on the Klamath NF. The enviros threatened to sue until the Ranger took trees out of the salvage harvest that the enviros considered had not been damaged by the fires. Most were in riparian areas.
Now the areas are recovering - except for the riparian areas with dead trees. Now future fire has a conduit right through the forest and up the mountain.
I can't tell you how misinformed and how much damage these enviros have done to our local forests.