Gale Norton on the Bush de-Forestation Plan:
But, Gale! Clear-cutting is not the same as thinning. I'll go out on a limb here because I have not read the legislation for myself but I strongly suspect that little is made of that distinction in said legislation. Proper thinning costs the timber companies too much money. They won't do it unless required to. You make no assurances whatsoever that this is not a license to rape and pillage.