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Labor Unions Applaud Senate's Bipartisan Passage Of Healthy Forests Restoration Act PRNewswire
The following statement can be attributed to Michael V Draper, vice president of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters' Western Region and chairman, Forest Products Industry National Labor Management Committee:

Healthy Forests legislation elicits protests, praise in Missoula By SHERRY DEVLIN
Reaction to the U.S. Senate’s passage of Healthy Forests legislation came from all corners Friday, with environmentalists claiming the bill is a “treat” for the timber industry and a timber buyer accusing environmentalists of “a lot of foolishness.”

Liar, Liar Forests on Fire By Karyn Strickler and Timothy G. Hermach
Logging called for in the Bush administration's laughably named Healthy Forests Restoration Act (HR 1904) is the same dishonest logging that created the conditions that made the Davis Lake fire and others across the nation so frightening. They call it thinning, fire-risk reduction, meadow restoration, or good management, but it all adds up to the same old theft and destruction of America's most precious natural treasures and life-support system: our national forests and watersheds. Thanks to the Bush administration's Healthy Forests Restoration Act, American taxpayers will continue to subsidize the destruction of what little is left of our nation's forests, even those that are publicly owned.

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