Congressman Wants Probe of Logging Study

From The Associated Press, 2/8/06:
http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-logging-study,0,43095.story?
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Congressman Wants Probe of Logging Study

By JEFF BARNARD
Associated Press Writer

GRANTS PASS, Ore. --

Accusing the Bush administration of manipulating science for political
ends, a congressman is calling for an investigation into why federal
funding was suspended for a study that did not support White House
calls for more logging after wildfires.

Rep. Jay Inslee, D-Wash., asked the Interior Department's inspector
general to examine whether the U.S. Bureau of Land Management was
punishing researchers from Oregon State University for their findings.

"It's very apparent to most neutral observers that under this
administration in a variety of ways that the scientific process has
been corrupted by political influence," Inslee said Tuesday.

He added: "It goes back to Galileo being punished for his views."

The Bush administration has argued that logging a national forest after
a blaze can clear debris and reduce the risk of further wildfires.

But the OSU study found that salvage logging killed seedlings and
increased, in the short term, the amount of fuel on the ground to feed
more fires.

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