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Loggers and county leaders urge faster salvage of burned timber to fund road and watershed repairs
Summary
Presenters at an Idaho Senate agriculture committee hearing urged quicker salvage logging after large wildfires, arguing that bureaucratic delays reduce timber value, raise rehabilitation costs and slow infrastructure repairs in rural communities.
Adams County Commissioner Vicki Purdy and local loggers told the Idaho Senate Agricultural Committee that federal processing delays are preventing timely salvage of merchantable timber after recent wildfires and are increasing costs for rural communities.
The testimony centered on why timber needs to be removed quickly after a burn to preserve market value and to generate revenue to rebuild roads and bridges lost in the fires. "We need to be salvaging this timber," said Mark Mahon, co-owner of Mahon Logging in Council, Idaho, in a video presented to the committee. Mahon described trees more than a century…
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