Healthy Forests Initiative

An Op-Ed in the August 12, 2003 edition of The New York Times&mdash;A Misdirected Forest Strategy&mdash;points out the fact that President George Walker Bush's plans for the Healthy Forests Initiative, announced last year against the backdrop of the Biscuit fire in southern Oregon, "on close inspection has less to do with preventing forest fires than it does with helping his friends in the timber industry."

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