BDTRUTH ABOUT MUDSLIDES: The Forest Service released the Clearwater National Forest roads report which confirms that 58% of the 900 slides from the winter of 95-96 resulted from logging roads and another 12% from logging. Conservationists had charged that Forest Service officials were hiding this information implicating roads and logging as the cause of mudslides on the Clearwater NF. "The Forest Service was dragging its heels in releasing this report on the mudslides, which they said would be out last October," said Larry McLaud, member of the Wild Clearwater coalition. An estimated 2,000 mudslides occurred in the Clearwater National Forest in 95-96. More than 1,000 slides also occurred in the Clearwater basin on private land owned by timber corporations.
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