Extensive salvage logging proposed for Rim fire area
Sunday, January 5, 2014 - 03:30
in Earth & Climate
The U.S. Forest Service project would be one of the largest federal salvage efforts in California in years. Not everyone approves.The U.S. Forest Service is proposing an extensive salvage operation to log dead trees on about 46 square miles of timberland charred in last year's massive Rim fire in the Sierra Nevada.