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September 2, 2014

Feds: Post-fire logging plan strikes a balance

  • An estimated 210 million board feet will be harvested near Yosemite, enough to build about 14,000 homes. The first round of bids are due this week.

    • FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — U.S. Forest Service officials say they tried to balance competing interests in a plan that will allow loggers to remove trees killed in a massive Central California wildfire last year.

    Environmentalists, however, have called it a travesty.


     
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