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Show MOUNTAIN TIMES Logging Redwoods Resumes SCOTIA, Calif. — Pacific Lumber Environmental Company is again logging in oldgrowth redwood forests after a temporary order to halt logging expired. Environmentalists have come out against logging in the Headwaters region and have tried to stop tree har‘vesting in the 60,000 acre forest there. But the California Department GAO: 128 Threats to Parks WASHINGTON — The General Office of Accounting sent its auditors to eight national parks and quickly gathered some 128 threats to the environment. Most of these threats had addressed, except not been to enumerate them in lists, the GAO has reported. Specific information on the threats facing the parks has not been consolidated, as it should be on a system-wide basis, the report states found at Some of the threats Arches National Park, for example, include bullets fired at rock-art sites and looting of archaeological sites, reduces solitude at crowding that Delicate Arch, and the damaging of crypto-biotic soil by too much foot traffic, among other things. Of the 128 threats identified at 8 parks visited, only two threats had seen protective action taken. PARK CITY'S Capsules WHO’S Suit Seeks Wilderness ON FIRST? of Forestry and state courts have rejected their requests. Some 200 people have been arrested for protesting the logging during the past month. Earlier, Charles Hurwitz, who controls Pacific Lumber agreed to halt logging on 7,500 acres of Headwaters land in exchange for $380 million. But the lumber company owns another 200,000 acres in the area, including extensive stands of ancient redwoods. News ing on the United Nations to protect at least 10 percent of the world’s forests. One of the biggest concerns is the Brazilian Amazon, where de-forestation during the past four years has taken place faster than before 1991 MISSOULA, ists have Wilderness Protection —Conservation Mont filed suit to protect federal Areas in Montana Study A suit filed by Montana Wilderness Association, Friends of the Bitterroot and American Wildlands in US District Court is aimed at the US Forest Service The Wyoming Hunts Bison 10 piles that have not been picked up by baggies provided, the ski trail will be closed to dogs for the rest of the winter And if Forest officials write 25 tickets for dogs not on leashes in the parking lot, the trail will be closed to canine’s for the season, as well. Big and Cottonwood Little Canyons already are off limits to dogs Dp CHEYENNE — Hunters can shoot bison wandering out of Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks, according to a plan from Wyoming’s Game and Fish Department. The practice is designed to keep from cattle herds the buffalo away because ranchers fear the spread of brucellosis. The disease could cause cattle to abort their calves. The proposed management plan has caught the ire of some environmental groups because it looks politically motivated by hunters and ranchers. Some want Wyoming to show evidence of transfer of brucellosis in the wild. Others want mechanisms to keep wandering out of the bison from park. World’s Forests Unprotected WASHINGTON — SALT LAKE CITY — This winter dogs will be restricted in Millcreek Canyon to even numbered days after Nov. 28. But if dog owners aren’t responsible for picking up the mess their canine pals leave, the dogs could be banned outright. 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To meet the needs of out-of-town visitors, our ATM accepts cards from all the networks listed below. of Bees Find Toxic Leaks A map the world’s forested lands now completed reveals that only 6 percent of the globe’s forests are protected against logging. leaves 94 percent of the That forests unprotected, according to maps compiled by satellite photos and ground charts. Those maps were provided by the World Wildlife Fund and the World Conservation Monitoring Center, in Britain. The maps were given to the United Nations, which estimates that between 1980 and 1990, the world lost about 1.3 percent of its forests each year, or 13 percent, to logging, farming and development. The conservation groups are call- Millcreek Dog Ban? suit the 1977 Wilderness Study Act have occurred in the Big Snowies, Bluejoint, Sapphires, Ten Middle Fork Judith, Lakes, West Pioneers and the Hyalite Porcupine-Buffalo Horn The Forest Service, under the law is charged with maintaining wilderness conditions. 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