ECONOTES 2012-02-07: Environmental Headlines for the Houston Region
Featured Forest Service sales try to salvage drought-stricken timber (Matthew Tresaugue – Houston Chronicle, 02/03/2012) Thousands of acres of the Sam Houston National Forest’s pine trees are dead or dying because of the drought. Forest officials have decided to cut some of the trees and harvest the wood before it rots, which is called salvage logging. Salvage logging is a…