Fact:
Most Americans do not realize that their National Forests are logged.
When they find out, they
want it stopped. (USFS, "Forest Service Values Poll Questions, Results
and Analysis," Bruce
Hammond, 1994.)
Although there are laws intended to protect the forest from environmental
damage, they are
routinely ignored. In a 1991 legal opinion regarding the northern spotted
owl case, Federal
Judge William Dwyer described federal land management agencies actions
as a "systematic and
deliberate refusal to comply with the nation’s environmental
laws." (Seattle Audubon Society v.
Mosley, 978 F. Supp. 1484, 1489 (W.d. Wash. 1992)
Less than five percent of this nation's,
native forests remain unlogged, almost all on public lands.