Source Notes
Title:
Biscuit Salvage Logging
Summary:
In September of 2002, Associated Press photographer Jeff Bernard captures an overview shot of the wildfire damage caused by the Biscuit Fire in Agnes, Oregon. The photo was taken from atop the Snow Cap Mountain.
The harvest of dead trees in national forests.
Image/ Journalistic.
What is it?
Photograph.
Publication Information:
Published by the Associated Press on October 21, 2002
Jeff Bernard
http://0apimages.ap.org.janus.uoregon.edu/Search.aspx?kw=logging&intv=None&sh=14&st=k&remem=x
Accessed:
February 23, 2009.
Support:
The photo tells a special case of logging in the national forest of Snow Cap Mountain. After the Biscuit Fire of 2002, the National Forest Service proposed to harvest the dead trees. The Snow Cap National Forest was originally restricted from all logging but due to a recent federal ruling, logging will be allowed at the forest. The National Forest Service issued their environmental impact statement in November of 2003, which proposed the logging of 518 million board feet—five times the amount cited in earlier discussions.
Audience & Agenda:
The Associated Press image website provides photographs from previous and current news publications. While funded by subscription and private interest groups, the site attracts approximately 4,256 U.S. monthly people and is popular among a college educated, largely female crowd.
Usefulness:
This photo provides me with a documented instance where logging was allowed in restricted areas due to extreme forest fire damage. In conducting citizen interviews with logging companies around the area, this photo presents some possible questions for me to ask these companies. How often are such cases happening—both fire damage to this extent and the removal of federal restrictions for logging? Annually, what if any, is the percentage of profit in such instances?
Works cited:
www.apimages.com
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