Lumber

If you’re wondering why the Alliance for the Wild Rockies wins 80% of its lawsuits against Forest Service logging projects, the answer is simple: It’s because the agency repeatedly breaks the laws that govern management of our forest ecosystems and the fish and wildlife that depend on them. Rather than follow the law, however, the Forest Service and timber industry fund scientists and corporate research groups to falsely claim that environmentalists are to blame for wildfires. It’s the same tactic the tobacco and fossil fuels industries used to find a few scientists to claim smoking doesn’t cause cancer and global warming doesn’t exist.