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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 2002

After a court ordered mediation process, the Agriculture Department and environmental groups on Thursday reached an agreement about the sale of timber in the Bitterroot National Forest.

The department had decided to sell more than 44,000 acres of timber that were burned in a forest fire in 2000. Environmental groups sued and a federal judge temporarily blocked the sale.

The agreement reached will scale back the sale to about 15,000 acres.

Get the Story:
Settlement Is Reached On Sale of Charred Trees (The Washington Post 2/8)
Bitterroot logging salvage resolved (AP 2/8)
Forest Service and Environmentalists Settle Logging Dispute (The New York Times 2/8)
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Relevant Links:
Roadless Forest Plan - http://roadless.fs.fed.us
The US Forest Service - http://www.fs.fed.us

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