Forwarded from Jane Clark:

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> From: Marianne Thaeler <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Fwd:Please distribute -- Grand Canyon calling again!
> Date: Friday, February 19, 1999 2:45 AM
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> Subject:    Please distribute -- Grand Canyon calling again!
> Author: Rob Smith
> Date:       2/18/99 12:00 PM
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> IS THIS THE GRAND CANYON NATIONAL FOREST?
>
>      Cutting 8000 trees, some up to 16 inches in diameter, hauling
> them away with logging trucks, and widening backwoods roads.  Is
> this what we expect at Grand Canyon National Park?
>
>      Even more, is this what should be allowed in a proposed park
> wilderness area?
>
>      The National Park Service wants to restore a natural fire
> cycle to the Grand Canyon rim, but years of fire suppression and
> past grazing have allowed too many small trees to grow to a point
> that wildfire might burn up too much of the forest.
>
>      Some thinning is needed, they say, to restore historic
> conditions for low-level grass fires to periodically cleanse the
> forest of underbrush without torching all of the big trees.
>
>      So far, so good.  But one of four alternatives in the Park
> Service's proposed wildfire experiment requires removal of
> commercial-sized logs with chainsaws and logging trucks.  One of
> two sites for this experiment is within a North Rim forest proposed
> by the Park Service for wilderness preservation.
>
>      "We're simply not going to allow trading Smokey the Bear for
> Paul Bunyan inside Grand Canyon National Park," said Sharon
> Galbreath, Grand Canyon chapter conservation chair.  "And logging
> within a proposed wilderness area is an idea which needs to be
> dropped pronto!"
>
>      The Park Service is taking comments on their proposed
> experiment until March 24.
>
>      Please tell them to stay out of the wilderness altogether;
> they can and should learn how to thin the forest on less sensitive
> lands.  And tell them to focus on thinning small trees, not logging
> big ones, inside this premier national park.
>
>      Comments can be emailed to [[log in to unmask]],
> or write to Grand Canyon National Park, attn: Wildlife Biologist,
> PO Box 129, Grand Canyon, AZ 86023.
>
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