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April 12, 2004
Forest Service misleads public - again
In an effort to bolster public support for more logging in national forests in response to fires in the west, the Forest Service released a photo showing a thinned forest that they claim represents what forests in the Sierra Nevada looked like before European settlement.
The logic? Well, thinned forests existed then and now they are "overcrowded" and need to be restored to what they once were.
However, there is just a couple problems with what the Forest Service did. First, the photo that was used to represent what pre-European settlement of the Sierra Nevada looked like was taken after the area had been logged!
Second, the photo was taken in Montana - not the Sierra Nevada! When called on the misleading representation, Forest Service spokesman Matt Mathes said:
“Our goal here was to ... increase the clarity and understandability of our message. We needed to be accurate but not necessarily precise to the 99th degree.”
Sounds like post-invasion Iraq failing the discovery of any weapons of mass destruction.
Posted by Ryan at April 12, 2004 04:56 PM
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