Olympic Wilderness would have little affect on timber industry…new study shows.

A study commissioned by the Wild Olympics Campaign says a congressional plan to set aside 132,000 acres in Olympic National Forest as wilderness, which would take the acreage out of forestry production, would have little impact on the timber industry because the timber industry already is restricted from harvesting most of the proposed area. Wild Olympics study says proposed congressional wilderness plan would have little effect on timber industry

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