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Subject: Logging Considered in Grand Canyon
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 21:18:00 EST
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Logging Considered in Grand Canyon
.c The Associated Press
By JOLYN OKIMOTO
PHOENIX (AP) -- The National Park Service hopes to experiment with tree
cutting in Grand Canyon National Park to see if it would improve the overall
health of the forest.
If allowed this summer, it apparently would be the first time one of America's
52 national parks had been logged. But park officials stressed Friday that it
would not be a timber operation.
``What this is, is a very small-scale research project to test four methods of
restoration,'' Grand Canyon spokeswoman Maureen Oltrogge said.
Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt said the experiment is necessary because
``for many years we suppressed naturally occurring fire and, without meaning
to, created artificial, unhealthy and dangerous forests.''
Environmentalists agree something must be done but fear too many trees will be
cut.
``You can always cut down more trees, but you can't put them back,'' said
Sharon Galbreath of the Sierra Club. ``Should we be experimenting in a
national park, with a method that resembles full-scale logging?''
Park biologist R.V. Ward said park's plan is to cut about 8,000 trees. ``More
have been cut in road-widening projects,'' he said.
He also said there is no other place that looks like a park, ``so if we take
data outside the park, it may not work there.''
Public hearings have been scheduled in February on the Grand Canyon plan.
Public outrage stopped a similar idea in Yellowstone National Park after the
fires of 1988, Galbreath said.
AP-NY-01-22-99 2116EST
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