Recently RY Timber, Pyramid Mountain Lumber, Roseburg Forest Products and Sun Mountain Lumber took out the above full-page advertisement in at least six Montana newspapers, including the Helena Independent Record, Missoulian, Kalispell Daily Interlake, Great Falls Tribune, Montana Standard and Bozeman Chronicle.
The timber industry ads called for scrapping the entire Forest Service public appeals process and exempting many timber sales in Montana from judicial review. These are the same timber companies pushing Senator Tester’s mandated logging bill, the Forest Jobs and Recreation Act, which would require logging on over 156 square miles of the Beaverhead-Deerlodge and Kootenia National Forest over the next 15 years.
Mike Garrity – Alliance for the Wild Rockies executive director and a 5th generation Montanan – responds to the Ad in the Montana Standard