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Rules should apply to federal forests, too.

Publication: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)
Publication Date: 30-MAR-06 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Rules should apply to federal forests, too.(Commentary)

Article Excerpt
Byline: GUEST VIEWPOINT By Warren Weathers and Maureen Weathers For The Register-Guard

Our family-owned forest and the years of work we've invested improving wildlife habitat and forest health are being destroyed by insects invading from adjacent national forest lands.

These insect outbreaks, while initially manageable, have been allowed to explode as a result of the federal government's inability to take emergency action. Adoption of Rep. Greg Walden's Forest Emergency Recovery and Research Act could prevent problems like this.

Three years ago, the Silver Complex fire burned 200,000 acres of the Fremont National Forest. Onerous federal regulations have prevented the Forest Service from intervening to stem the disaster by removing the...

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