[pct-l] Forest Service chief puts old-growth timber off-limits

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Forest Service chief puts old-growth timber off-limits

Action is a challenge to new administration

By Douglas Jehl
  NEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE

  January 9, 2001


  WASHINGTON -- In a clear challenge to the incoming Bush administration, the
  head of the Forest Service issued a policy yesterday barring the cutting of
  old-growth timber on public lands.

  The statement by Mike Dombeck, the Forest Service chief, goes far beyond any
  other efforts to put the oldest and biggest trees in the nation's forests 
off limits to
  loggers and mills who prize them for their commercial value. If allowed 
to stand,
  the policy would reduce by 50 percent the amount of timber on federal 
lands that
  is due to come up for auction, Clinton administration officials said.
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