9/6/1996 81

FOREST SERVICE TRIES TO ILLEGALLY LOG DURING LOGGING BAN, AGAIN

Despite a court ordered ban on all logging in every southwestern National Forest in effect since August, 1995, the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest has issued the Cottonwood Salvage Timber Sale under the logging without laws rider. This is the second time the forest has attempted to violated the court order. Earlier this summer it resumed logging for one day before the court issued a blistering demand to stop.

The plaintiffs in the suit are challenging the new sale under the existing logging injunction.