1.   Bischel cited the Quincy Library Group plan, a forestry initiative developed by small Sierra communities that emphasizes selective logging to reduce fire danger, as a better approach.

2.   Even selective logging has a drastic impact on populations.

3.   His research supports the use of intentionally set small fires and selective logging as ways to eliminate small trees and return the forest to a more natural condition.

4.   In forest ecosystems of the West, timber and cattle interests favor selective logging and grazing as the prime means of reducing fuel.

5.   Selective logging enjoys the support of the sensibly green secretary of the interior, Bruce Babbitt, and many scientists.

6.   The Amazon suffers from other damage not extensive enough to show up in satellite pictures, such as selective logging, fires and drying.

7.   This has included selective logging, leaving the largest and rarest trees to prosper while making a modest profit from the thinnings.

8.   Yet some large national conservation groups like the Wilderness Society, while cautious about the idea of selective logging, find the idea interesting.

9.   But selective logging leaves the forest floor littered with less valuable trees knocked down accidentally, and they quickly dry out and turn into eventual fuel for fires.

10.   But the risks are increased by human activities such as selective logging, drainage and pollution-related climate change.