Cutting of Burned Forest Area Assailed
Sequoia ForestKeeper, a local environmental group, is criticizing plans to cut trees in an area of the Sequoia National Forest destroyed by fire last summer, calling the plan a timber sale.
Under the Sherman Pass Restoration Project, the U.S. Forest Service proposes to remove 90% of standing burned trees on about 6,000 acres of 150,000 acres charred in the McNally fire.
Officials plan to sell the wood as lumber, firewood or biomass fuel. Some trees would remain standing or be left on the ground for erosion control and wildlife habitat.
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