In Fire's Wake, Logging Study Inflames Debate:
(By Blaine Harden -- The Washington Post)
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"'We must quickly restore the areas that have been damaged by fire,' President Bush said in Oregon four years ago after touring damage from the Biscuit fire. He called it 'common sense.'
Daniel Donato, lead author of a study that criticizes post-wildfire logging, was grilled last week at a House subcommittee hearing by members who favor easing procedures for such timbering.
Common sense, though, may not always be sound science. An Oregon State University study has raised an extraordinary ruckus in the Pacific Northwest this winter by saying that logging burned forests does not make much sense."
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