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contact Laura Posada at (979) 862-8841 or e-mail lposada@bushschool.tamu.edu.
The application deadline for summer enrollment is April 16.
RENO, Nev. — The Forest
Service lias been accused of
misrepresenting forest condi
tions by using misleading photo
graphs in a brochure that urges
more logging to prevent wild
fires in the Sierra Nevada.
The pamphlet, created by a
public relations firm, explains
that fire risks have risen as the
Sierra’s forests have grown
more dense the past century. Six
small black-and-white photos
spanning 80 years appear beside
descriptions of how the “forests
of the past” had fewer trees and
less underbrush, making them
less susceptible to tire.
The 1909 photo shows an
open, park-like forest with large
trees spaced widely apart. More
trees and underbrush appear in
each successive picture —
1948, 1958, 1968, 1979— and
finally a photograph thick with
trees in 1989.
‘‘Today’s forests, dense with
green, may seem beautiful, but
in fact are deadly,” the pamphlet
reads. “Our old-growth forests
are choking with brush, tinder-
dry debris and dead trees which
make the risk of catastrophic
tire high.”
However, the 1909 photo
does not depict natural condi
tions — it was taken just after
the forest had been logger!.
And the pictured forest is
nowhere near the Sierra Nevada.
It’s in Montana.
“1 was looking at the picture
and I thought it looked awful
familiar,” said Chad Hanson,
director of the John Muir Project
in Cedar Ridge, Calif. “I started
looking around
Vegetative Trends in thelVr
Rockies: Interpretation#
1871-1982 photographs."
The caption in thati
said the photo shows “ci
operations on the Lick I
timber sale.”
The site
and sure
enough, the
industry has
used it before
in Montana.
It’s from the
Bitterroot
Valley.”
Then
Hanson used
a magnifying
glass to
make anoth
er discovery.
“You can
see huge slash
piles and
stumps in the
background,”
he said. “They
give the
impression
this represents
They give the
impression this
represents natural,
pre-settlement
conditions, but the
picture was taken after
logging had occurred
and most of the trees
had been removed.
— Chad Hanson
director of the John Muir Project
natural, pre set
tlenient conditions, but the pic
ture was taken after logging had
occurred and most of the trees
had been removed.”
The same shot taken near
Como Lake in the Bitterroot
National Forest southwest of
Hamilton. Mont., appeared in a
1983 Forest Service research
report entitled “Fire and
also appejii
another aj« |
research
in 1995 i
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growth
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Northwest, too. W ear
”1 can’t believe they ana : ' r ' v
doing this." said Tii®^ 1 '
NEWS IN BRIEF
American Airlines, vendor
point fingers over privacy flap
WASHINGTON (AP) — In an effort to shield them
selves from potential lawsuits, American Airlines and
one of its technology providers are pointing fingers at
each other over who allowed some 1.2 million pas
senger records to be shared with four companies
doing aviation security research for the government.
AMR Corp., the parent of American Airlines, dis-
Ingalsbee of the Western
I ecology ('enter in Eugene,® i t0
He said the agency used ii^ 1
ame sequence of phoiotiilfl^lir
'and misrepresented it toi tanly
it seem like it came fromth: * coi
si just above Ashland.Oresi Ini to
1 iio a
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spator
closed late Friday that it authorized toi ^
Automation Inc., to share the passenger data tiS
Transportation Security Administration injure?)]—^
However, the Fort Worth, Texas-based airliness:® 1
never gave Airline Automation the authority to da® ^
the data with the four research companies 1 w
Software Inc., Infoglide Software CorpJsci
Technology Inc. and Lockheed Martin Corp
Airline Automation, a provider of rev«Mia(i|
agement technology based in Tucson, AM
putes that claim
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