Forest Protection

If The Times is interested in protecting public lands in the Sierra Nevada, as was suggested by your May 15 editorial, you should support the National Forest Protection and Restoration Act, HR 1396. NFPRA would end the logging on our national forests and other public lands.

Because we spend over a billion dollars a year subsidizing national forest logging, this bill would obviously save us a great deal of money. At the same time, part of the savings would be redirected into ecological restoration and worker retraining. This is a solution that makes sense both for the forests and for our pocketbooks.

STEVE HOYE

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