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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (128992)2/24/2001 12:37:49 PM
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The Tongass National Forest has nearly 17 million acres. About 9 million acres of that has some kind of tree cover. About 6 million acres of that has trees that are commercially valuable. The Tongass Land Management Plan provides that less than 1 million acres is suitable and available for timber harvest. The majority of the suitable and available acres are roadless and were effectively removed from harvest by one of Clinton's last executive orders. Pulp mills in Ketchikan and Sitka which were the main users of that harvest have been closed. Trees grow up naturally after timber harvest with very little assistance from man. The acres that have already been cut will produce the same amount of wood in about a fifth of the time it took them to grow the wood that was removed. These are basic facts, with the numbers well-rounded.
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