Bush Era Loggin Expansion Halted by Obama Administration... Hip Hip Hoooray

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Among the many duche-bag moves the Bush administration made one that hit very close to home was the WOPR or the Western Oregon Plan Revision. This WOPR's direct goal was to open 2.6 million acres of land from Salem to Roseburg and over to Coos Bay for logging. The old growth forest of the Pacific Northwest were at even great risk until yesterday when Interior Secretary Ken Salazar noticed that the proposed plan broke the law. What the federal government has come to discover is that the science of the proposed logging "revision" had been purposefully and illegally skewed by the former Deputy Assistant Secretary for Fish and Wildlife Julie MacDonald. If it was that easy for a former Deputy Assistant to revise scientific information for personal and political agenda you can only imagine what the more powerful decision makers have had there fingers in. This decision not only comes to the defense of some of the most beautiful old growth temperate rainforest in the country but it also comes to the defense of the endangered Norhtern Spotted Owl.

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