Audrey Gomez and Scott Swanson
A proposal to establish a nearly half-million-acre Douglas Fir National Monument in the forests east of Sweet Home has provoked a loud outcry from public and forest industry officials who say it’s a threat to the county as a whole and Sweet Home in particular.
They and others with interests in local forests say they are baffled and alarmed by the idea, particularly if the monument were to be enacted…