Ninety-five percent of the nations native forests have been logged.
Most of the remaining five percent lie on public lands, but are subject
to taxpayer subsidized logging. The result: hundreds of species 
are
threatened with extinction, fisheries suffer, drinking water supplies are
polluted, and destabilized soils result in disastrous floods and landslides.
Logging companies claim the U.S. needs the lumber and the jobs. But
National Forest supply less than four percent of U.S. demand. It
is really a choice between "owls and jobs" or is it just cooperate spin
to justify continuing subsidies for logging companies? Are their
viable alternatives for meeting our timber and fiber needs? Is it
time to stop logging on public lands all together? Inside are the
answers to these and other timely questions Americans are asking about
the future of or National Forest.
America's
National Forests: A Legacy Betrayed
The Problem: Timber Sales on Public Lands
