At 09:35 AM 12/18/98 -0700, you wrote:
>FOR RELEASE:� THURSDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1998
>
>NORTHERN ROCKIES WELL REPRESENTED IN LAWSUIT CHALLENGING MONEY-LOSING
>FEDERAL LOGGING PROGRAM
>
>Regional Economist, Business Owner, and Biologist Participate
>
>
>A logger, the president of a paper company, a resort owner, and 11 other
>individuals and organizations today filed suit in Federal District Court in
>Burlington, VT against the U.S. Forest Service, claiming the agency's
>logging program has hurt them economically in violation of federal law.
>(see earlier release "First of Its Kind Lawsuit Challenges Money-Losing
>Federal Logging Program on Economic Grounds")
>
>Also participating in the historic lawsuit are a number of individuals from
>the Northern Rockies.� "Unlogged National Forests are a major source of
>economic vitality in the west," said lawsuit participant Tom Power,
>Chairman of the Economics Department at the University of Montana.� "If
>these valuable environmental services are not incorporated into Forest
>Service economic analysis, there is no possibility that the analysis will
>guide the Forest Service to rational land management choices that maximize
>the social and economic contributions of National Forest lands."
>
>"I used to believe in the compatibility of developing timber and protecting
>aquatic resources.� After nearly 20 years with the Forest Service, I no
>longer do.� The policy of "getting the cut out" at any cost does not allow
>it," said former Clearwater National Forest (ID) fisheries biologist F. Al
>Espinosa, Jr.� "I support the halting of commercial logging and associated
>road construction on National Forest lands.� It is a dysfunctional system
>that has led to widespread damage and loss of fish, wildlife, and other
>amenity resources."
>
>Larry Evans, professional mushroom harvester and business owner from
>Missoula, Montana participated in the lawsuit due to the negative impacts
>logging has on non-timber forest products.� "The national forest logging
>program has a detrimental effect on the gathering of mushrooms and other
>non-timber forest products" said Evans.� "Mushrooms and other non-timber
>forest products are valuable to the country's economy in terms of income
>generated and jobs created.� The Forest Service logging program fails to
>account for the economic loss of these products in timber sales."
>
>"The American people continue to question the rational behind the federal
>logging program on National Forests." said Jeanette Russell with the Native
>Forest Network in Missoula, Montana.� "If the federal logging program on
>National Forests causes more economic and environmental harm than good,
>perhaps it is time to halt this senseless program."
>
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>For Further Information, Please Contact:
>
>Tom Power - Economist, University of Montana (406) 243-4586
>Larry Evans� - Business Owner, Missoula, MT (406) 543-6630
>Al Espinosa -� Fisheries Biologist, Moscow, Idaho (208) 882-6473
>Jeanette Russell - Native Forest Network, Missoula, MT (406) 542-7343
>
>
>Jeanette Russell,
>Rocky Mountain Field Organizer
>Native Forest Network
>POB, 8251, Missoula,MT 59807
>(406) 542-7343, fax (406) 542-7347
>mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
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