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 Stories About: California AND Nevada AND ranching AND US Forest Service AND wilderness
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Sierras Clubbed
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07 Mar 2003 |
Daily Grist |
| Sierras Clubbed Logging would more than double, more cattle would be allowed to graze, and forests could be aggressively thinned under proposed revisions to a management plan for the Sierra Nevada unveiled yesterday by the U.S. Forest Service. The sweeping changes to the Clinton-era Sierra Nevada Framework would allow timber companies to cut trees up to 30 inches in diameter in old-growth fores ... |
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| Topics: California, Nevada, ranching, US Forest Service, wilderness (all these topics) |
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