Crowdog
12-27-2001, 11:02 AM
Fire Sale
By Al Kamen
Monday, December 24, 2001; Page A15
The Turner Foundation has been a steadfast supporter of environmental groups such as Earthjustice Legal Defense Fund ($75,000 in 1999), Friends of the Bitterroot ($20,000 in 1999) and the Western Environmental Law Center ($100,000 in 1999).
Those groups scored big last week when a federal judge in Montana blocked a U.S. Forest Service plan to sell trees charred in summer 2000 fires in the Bitterroot National Forest. The groups said clearing the charred logs would disrupt natural decomposition and promote runoff that could harm the fish.
The judge's order on Tuesday came just as trees charred from another fire that summer started coming off the Bar-None Ranch and other ranches near Toston, Mont., about 200 miles east of the Bitterroot.
And who would be the owner of this ranch? Bingo! Ted Turner. Turner's folks say their timber sale must meet a stringent plan that forbids harming the water quality and fisheries and must be environmentally beneficial. The plan is monitored by the Montana Nature Conservancy.
The Forest Service folks say the Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Montana Department of Environmental Quality signed off on their plan, not to mention the governor.
Unclear if the groups plan to block the Bar-None's timber sales.
© 2001 The Washington Post Company
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19462-2001Dec23.html
More Turner Foundation news:
http://www.crowley-offroad.com/turner_foundation.htm
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By Al Kamen
Monday, December 24, 2001; Page A15
The Turner Foundation has been a steadfast supporter of environmental groups such as Earthjustice Legal Defense Fund ($75,000 in 1999), Friends of the Bitterroot ($20,000 in 1999) and the Western Environmental Law Center ($100,000 in 1999).
Those groups scored big last week when a federal judge in Montana blocked a U.S. Forest Service plan to sell trees charred in summer 2000 fires in the Bitterroot National Forest. The groups said clearing the charred logs would disrupt natural decomposition and promote runoff that could harm the fish.
The judge's order on Tuesday came just as trees charred from another fire that summer started coming off the Bar-None Ranch and other ranches near Toston, Mont., about 200 miles east of the Bitterroot.
And who would be the owner of this ranch? Bingo! Ted Turner. Turner's folks say their timber sale must meet a stringent plan that forbids harming the water quality and fisheries and must be environmentally beneficial. The plan is monitored by the Montana Nature Conservancy.
The Forest Service folks say the Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Montana Department of Environmental Quality signed off on their plan, not to mention the governor.
Unclear if the groups plan to block the Bar-None's timber sales.
© 2001 The Washington Post Company
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19462-2001Dec23.html
More Turner Foundation news:
http://www.crowley-offroad.com/turner_foundation.htm
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