ENLARGE
This 2006 file photo shows loading machinery as it sits idle at a commercial thinning site in the Umpqua National Forest between Lemolo Lake and Highway 138 East. For the past couple of years, the Umpqua National Forest has met or exceeded harvest goals by relying exclusively on less controversial thinning or fuels-reduction sales.
Under the 1994 Northwest Forest Plan, the U.S. Bureau of Land Management's Roseburg District has met only half of its timber sales target.
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