July 29, 2022
Dear Editor:

Despite the widespread opposition to recent logging and chaparral removal projects in the Los Padres National Forest, the Forest Service has doubled down on spending its limited time and resources on remote vegetation removal projects.

Their recently proposed and misnamed “Ecological Restoration Project” would allow the use of heavy machinery to cut…(please see below to view full stories and photographs)

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Earth Island-John Muir Project scientist Chad Hanson shows larger diameter trees likely to be part of the local USFS logging projects.

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