U.S. Weighs Logging in Forest Hit by Fire
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The U.S. Forest Service estimates that about 1.1 billion board feet of timber can be salvaged from land scorched by the Biscuit fire last summer.
The service is considering salvage logging on about 51,000 acres of Siskiyou National Forest land burned by the nation’s largest and most expensive wildfire of the season. But the figure doesn’t factor in trees that have already deteriorated, or other restrictions, an official said.
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