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74.2% of Kentuckians Oppose Logging on Public Land1

     The Daniel Boone National Forest is too precious to log.  It contains over 3,000 miles of beautiful cliff lines, rare habitats, and the highest concentration of threatened and endangered species in the state.

     The Daniel Boone National Forest represents only 4.8% of timberland in Kentucky.  We don’t need to log the Boone to supply our wood fiber needs.

     Public forests should be reserved for values that can’t be guaranteed on private land such as wildlife, watershed protection, research, education and recreation.

     Logging wastes tax dollars.  The US Forest Service subsidizes private timber companies to cut our trees, wasting over a billion dollars each year.2

     Logging destroys interior forest habitat, silts streams, and creates mudslides, erosion, flooding, exotic species invasion and monoculture “tree farm” forests.

 

1 1995 Univ. of KY Survey Research Center Poll

2 US General Accounting Office – USFS