Chief, if the USFS is permitted to operate without political interference, then they should be free to manage national forests according to their professional standards. At present the Forest Service is under heavy pressure to allow maximum harvest of timber. If they can't resist the political heat, then the law is all that restrains them from skinning the woods. Under Bill Clinton The FS had the best director ever. Since then, politics has had the upper hand. No one should be immune from litigation except perhaps the Pope.

Bill Ferguson