Conservationists are committed to stopping the Bybee timber sale, disregarding, ironically, the environmental drawbacks to their campaign. The U.S. Forest Service proposes to thin about 4,000 acres in a 16,000-acre section of the Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest just beyond Douglas County’s eastern edge. Thinning would occur along three miles of Crater Lake National Park’s western boundary, giving conservationists their main rallying point. The hype against Bybee resembles the campaign against the D-Bug timber sale around Diamond and Lemolo lakes. In both cases, conservationists allege the timber harvests would be an assault on Oregon’s only national park. The facts do not …



