11.   But the plan has yet to produce its promised level of timber sales and is being assailed by industry critics.

12.   But there, they noted, the proposed timber sales that may be affected have been blocked for now by a separate court injunction.

13.   Curt Smitch, assistant regional director of the service, said the proposals would impose no new curbs on timber sales nor new burdens on private landowners.

14.   Despite budget incentives to log more, adds Carle of Restore, most timber sales are a drain on the US Treasury.

15.   Despite the pact, most commercial timber sales remain stalled under the injunction ordered by Judge Carl Muecke of U.S. District Court in Phoenix.

16.   For the past two years, the Forest Service has taken into account only the possible effect on owls by individual timber sales.

17.   He declined to say whether he will sign a budget cutbacks bill if Congress includes a provision exempting salvage timber sales from environmental protection laws.

18.   He has urged Chelan County commissioners to hold their own salvage timber sales of burned trees on national forest lands.

19.   If salmon are listed, Locke said, hardly a housing development, timber sale or road project in the state could proceed without considering its impact on fish.

20.   In salvage timber sales, dead or damaged trees are harvested after a wildfire or other blight.