The New Era
Residents of Linn County and other Western Oregon communities should be forgiven if they experience a wave of cynicism when they hear talk of opening up local federal forest lands to logging.
After two decades of legal wrangling and lack of leadership at many levels in solving the problems of rapidly thickening woodlands that pose serious hazards, the kind we’ve seen come to light in conflagrations such as the B&B, Sour Biscuit…