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Forest Lands National Forest
702 wordsWhen National Forests are logged, valuable recreation, fishing, and hunting sites are destroyed. When National Forests are logged, municipalities, businesses, and domestic water users downstream must pay for filtering logging sediments out of water supplies. Economists found that logging imposes costs in the order of $ 1. 94 per ton on downstream water users in the Little Tennessee River basin. When National Forests are logged, increased flooding destroys prime farmland, washes out bridges and r...
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Billion Per Year National Forests
1,663 wordsBlanton Forest is the largest contiguous unprotected old-growth hardwood forest in the Eastern United States. The 6, 000 + acre design for the future Blanton Forest Nature Preserve includes 2, 350 acres of pristine old-growth wilderness including 200 + year-old trees and Watts Creek, a sanctuary for the endangered Blackside dace fish. It belongs to a type of diverse temperate forest class called "mixed mesophytic" that is considered called both "globally significant" and "critically endangered" ...
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Forest Service Clear Cutting
593 wordsSince World War 2, the Forest Service had gone through a major revolution that it included the need to be more efficient and cost-effective in production of timber as a crop from national forest lands. However, the increased effort of timber production clashed with environmental issues, the need for more recreation and wildlife viewing. In 1960, law with management of the national forests according to a philosophy of sustained yield and multiple use charged the Forest Service. This was the produ...
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Endangered Species Million Acres
1,220 wordsWith all the new and advanced technology that is accessible today, who has time to enjoy or care about the great outdoors? Unfortunately, much of the wilderness and the animals within it are gradually fading away. There are many animals that have already been extinct and many more will soon be put on the list of extinction. In the second issue of Target Earth, Tim Stevens found in 1975, the grizzly bear was listed as a threatened species, under the Endangered Species Act. Stevens also stated, To...
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Wildlife Habitat Clear Cutting
3,231 wordsThe Roadless Area Final Rule: Conservation or Preservation? In 1978, the United States Forest Service (USFS) began the management of roadless areas, i. e. , all areas greater than 5, 000 acres and without constructed roads, in a study called Roadless Area Review and Evaluation II (RARE II). The purpose of this study was to determine the suitability of these roadless areas for inclusion in the National Wilderness Preservation System. On October 13, 1999, twenty-one years later, President Clinton ...
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