Group challenges timber producer's 'green' label

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP-Excite

By JEFF BARNARD

GRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) — A watchdog group is challenging the environmentally friendly "green lumber" certification for Plum Creek Timberlands, one of the nation's biggest landowners and timber producers.

The Center for Sustainable Economy, based in Lake Oswego, Oregon, filed the complaint Thursday with a nonprofit group that verifies whether timber producers follow standards for environmentally responsible logging.

The complaint covers Plum Creek logging in Oregon's Coast Range, citing 11 civil citations over the past six years for violating state logging regulations, including four limiting the size and placement of clearcuts.

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1. You would be shocked at what responsible logging looks like

here in Oregon, makes me want to cry at all the loss of habitat and the burning of all the slash.

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2. Ants Ass

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