Title

The Maine Legislature's Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry Committee, which

Authors

Phyllis Austin

Source

Maine Times

Date

2-12-1998

Pages

10

Abstract

The Maine Legislature's Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry Committee, which is reviewing the 1989 Forest Practices Act, logger licensing, harvesting audit programs, and green certification, met at a session to update the 1995 forestry inventory and the 1989 cct. Barbara Brusila, a forestry consultant from Warren, said the 1989 Act had "little basis in silviculture," and that Gov. Angus King aborted the work of the Maine Council on Sustainable Forest Management, in a reaction to the 1996 clear-cutting referendum. An inventory report detailing the declining condition of the forest took some committee members by surprise, and Maine Forest Service Director Chuck Gadzik was criticized for implying that the harvest/growth imbalances were due to salvage operations after the spruce budworm epidemic, which was over in 1984.

Subjects

Forests and forestry

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