1.   A budget rescission bill in May mandated a huge increase in the timber harvest in national forests.

2.   About two-thirds of private timber harvests occur in the South, said Lark Hayes, an attorney for the Southern Environmental Law Center.

3.   Deltic Timber expects to sharply increase its timber harvests, for example, and to embark on a timberlands acquisition strategy.

4.   Environmental groups said that areas served by existing logging roads already provided enough land for a sustainable timber harvest, and that the road ban should be extended here.

5.   He charged that the agency was pushing old-style timber harvests under a forest-health guise.

6.   He made it clear that he understands that timber companies and logging communities need a stable program to exist, but that timber harvests must not destroy forests.

7.   He wanted to trim the annual timber harvest, protect watersheds, restore wildlife habitat.

8.   In addition, the agency exempted itself from the kind of administrative appeals that environmentalists often rely on to challenge timber harvests.

9.   Limiting timber harvest is wasteful forest management and leaves older woodlands susceptible to disease and fire, Ridenhour said.

10.   On easels and computer screens, landscape architects draw plans for parks, zoos, gardens and -- get this -- timber harvests.