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Foresters ask Clinton to investigate reprisals
WASHINGTON (AP)
Past and present For
t's! Servile workers
urged President'ele< !
Clinton on Thursday to
investigate alleged re
pnsals against agent v st lentists (fix ument
mu damage from logging hi national forests
“When gtx>d, solid si lent ii rn.u ht's a t oil
t lusimi other than vvhnt fort's! managers
want, the v itint e is suppressed and the st i
enlists are punished." said Brian Hunt, an
organizer for the Asstx iation of f orest Ser
vit e Krnplovees for Knvironmental Flint s
The group's request stems from growing
tensions over land use in national forests
notably the Clearwater in Idaho and the
Tongass in Alaska AFSFKF laom Tied a ra
dio advertising c ampaign Thursday in l ittle
Kot k. Ark . to try to draw Clinton s atten
tion to alleged pressure on Forest Servile
workers in the field
|eff Filer, a spokesman for Clinton's trail
sit ion of fit e said antes lot .1 inton is on Id re
v lew A I- SI T I s i am erns
i lie atls single out the Clearwater and
l ungass. hut at tivisls say protilems there
are n mu rm asm ol a systemw ide dash and
underst ore the nt>ed to reassess the i entury
old ageni v's mission
This internal i onfln t trelween those
wlio want to get the rut out and ifitise who
want to prolix t the resource is building up
to the boiling point Hunt suit) Thursday
from Fugetie. where the 1(1.00(1 -member
AI SI If is based
"The warring factions have drawn the
lino on every forest across the countr\ It's
just more acute on the Clearwater." lit* said
Karlier this week. Al Espinosa. 53. of
Moscow. Idaho, announced he was ending
his 10 year career as the fisheries biologist
on the Clearwater forest rather than contin
ue fighting supervisors over logging plans
Espinosa said the forest s i urrent logging
quotas an' "in fantasy land” and could nev
er be achieved without breaking environ
mental laws
The former University of Nevada-!-ns Ve
gas researcher said the Forest Service rou
tinely violates its own laws to inflate tim
ber-harvest targets and appease the timber
industry
Espinosa said he suspe< ts his fellow re
sown e specialists will he ordered trans
ferred for documenting damage to troubled
fish and vs ildlife spis ies
"They are after a couple of wildlife and
hydrology spis nilists I would have been
one of them if I stayed." said Espinosa, who
opted for early retirement
1 think they are trying to roll those peo
ple so they can get the (timlver) c lit up fast
er." he said Thursday in a telephone inter
v leys
In Alaska a longtime biologist at the
Tongoss National Forest announced last
month he vs as leasing his post after serving
as the leader of a team assigned to develop a
proles lion plan for spei ies dependent on
old -growth forests
t.dwell Suring said lie was tired of bat
When good, solid science
reaches a conclusion other
than what forest managers
want, the science is
suppressed and the
scientists are punished
— Brian Hunt,
Association of Forest Service Employees
for Environmental Ethics
tling timber interests and mad that superi
ors held bat k the rejxirt. which warned that
continuing current logging levels would
jeopardize goshawks, wolves and otters.
A dispute has been simmering in the 1.7
mil!ion-o< re C learwater — home to troubled
salmon and trout spe< ies, grizzly bears,
wolverines and lynx since — last year,
when the agency's former regional boss,
John Mumma. told Congress he was forc ed
from his job when he resisted pressure to
overharv est
Momma, who oversaw forests in Idaho
and Montana, told a House subcommittee
that logging (juntas could not be met with
out breaking the law
"There has just been too muc h political
tinkering through the appropriations pro
c ess that requires the Forest Service to
maintain too high of harvest levels.”
Muinina said in an interx iew last month
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Keisling says no to Packwood inquiry
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tarv of Slain I’lit! ktusling said
Thursday lie won’t investigate
an allegation that l S Sen Huh
I’m k vv nod violated a state elei
lion law in his handling of sex
ual mis. onducl allegations
against him
I’m kwood s opponents al
leged that l’aikssnnd hroke a
lavs against using undue infill
eni e in ele. lions by lying to the
news met I Hi and seeking to dis
credit women who in ( used him
of making unwanted sexual ad
vances.
Hut Keislmg said that < on
duct, even if it occurred. does
not fall under the definition of
(fregon s undue influetu e law
"Oregon statutes do not give
this offii e broad authority to
regulate dishonesty by elei ted
officials except under s|mh die
circumstances denned in elec
tion law," Keisling said in a
prepared statement.
A lawyer tor I’aekwood, John
I)iI.orenzo, (ailed Keisling’s
finding "a complete vindica
tion" of l’tt( kwood.
"It is clear that the senator at
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