Subject: SW BIODIVERSITY ALERT
#100
******** SOUTHWEST BIODIVERSITY ALERT #100
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11/4/97
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* SOUTHWEST CENTER
FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY
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* silver city,
tucson, phoenix, san diego
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SALVAGE TIMBER SALE WITHDRAWN
AFTER APPEAL
In response to an appeal by the Southwest Center, the
Lincoln
National Forest (NM) has withdrawn the Sunspot Salvage Timber
Sale.
Supposedly designed to "control" a round-headed pine
beetle
infestation, the sale would log large live trees, including
crucial
habitat for the threatened Mexican spotted owl.
Exploiting a
loophole in Forest Service regulations, the Forest
planned the sale to be
just under one million board feet, thereby
claiming no environmental analysis
is necessary. The regulations,
however, say that an environmental analysis is
required if
threatened or endangered species are
present.
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Kieran
Suckling
ksuckling@sw-center.org
Executive
Director
520.623.5252 phone
Southwest Center for Biological
Diversity 520.623.9797 fax
http://www.sw-center.org
pob 710, tucson, az 85702-710