The Press Democrat
Matt Dias of the California Forestry Association, cheerily nicknamed “Calforests,” paints a rosy picture of Cal Fire’s management of the Jackson Demonstration State Forest (“A success story in forest management,” Close to Home, Sunday). If I was the head of the state’s largest timber lobbying organization, I would be pretty happy too. California operates the Jackson Demonstration State Forest as industrial timberlands, centering land management decisions around timber profits. The rest of us have to live with Cal Fire’s logging of our public lands. Let’s look at the facts.
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