Speed logging. (News from the World of Trees).The newest threat to the nation's old-growth: drug addicts looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. fast cash to fund their habits. In Olympic National Forest Olympic National Forest is a U.S. National Forest located in Washington, USA. With an area of 633,677 acres (2,564 km²), it nearly surrounds Olympic National Park and the Olympic Mountain range. in Washington, authorities believe more than 40 trees--including a 400-year-old western red cedar Western red cedar: see juniper, arborvitae. 7 feet across--were destroyed by methamphetamine users, according to the Associated Press quoting the Seattle Times. Six men from Grays Harbor County, Washington Grays Harbor County is a county of Washington State, in the United States of America. As of 2000, the population was 67,194. The county seat is at Montesano, and its largest city is Aberdeen. , were charged with first-degree theft from forests. The men are thought to have stolen wood from numerous sites and cut down at least 19 old-growth trees, often to pay for drug habits, AP said. Crimes and other incidents have doubled on national forests and grasslands in the past five years, but the number of Forest Service personnel and investigators available to deal with them has remained the same. Losses on public lands in Washington alone total more than $1 million each month, says Dennis Heryford, chief investigator for Washington's Department of Natural Resources Many sub-national governments have a Department of Natural Resources or similarly-named organization:
Mobile labs for methamphetamine have also damaged streams and rivers with toxic byproducts, AP said. |
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