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Keep the Forest Fires Burning
Critics Charge Forest Service With Overzealous Fire Fighting |
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09 Feb 2004 |
Daily Grist |
| Keep the Forest Fires Burning Critics Charge Forest Service With Overzealous Fire Fighting A growing cadre of critics charge the U.S. Forest Service with fighting too many fires, saying that the cost -- in money, lives, and ecological damage -- is too high. As logging in national forests has declined by 80 percent over the last decade, fighting fires has become the agency's pr ... |
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| Topics: logging, national forests, pollution and waste, US Forest Service, wilderness (all these topics) |
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