Salvage timber logging to proceed

Associated Press: The U.S. Forest Service has dismissed an objection from an environmental group that sought to delay salvage logging of thousands of trees uprooted by a rare central Idaho tornado. Bidding on timber sales has begun. Friday, the Forest Service will award contracts for an estimated 18.5 million board feet of downed and buckled timber in the Payette National Forest near the Oregon border, said spokesman Boyd Hartwig. The WildWest Institute, an environmental group based in Missoula, ...Link  (Dr. Glen Barry) on logging salvage