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defense | save the biscuit  forest service admits fawking up
botanical reserve in siskiyous  the forest service admits that
it wrongly marked the boundaries of the fiddler timber sale
resulting in significant logging in a rare botanical reserve. as
part of the biscuit "salvage" project, the fiddler timber sale
was continually blockaded early this summer by peaceful
activists until the forest service closed the area to the
public. after the roads were reopened and logging was completed,
members of the siskiyou project discovered that significant
logging had occurred within the protected 350-acre babyfoot lake
botanical area. mismarking of logging and roadbuilding
boundaries is being blamed for the illegal logging. this seems
to blatantly illustrate the forest service's error in locking
the public out of their own forests. the seattle times is
reporting that 290 stumps were found within the