KETCHAM: A target on the West’s defining forests
By Christopher Ketcham, Los Angeles Times (TNS) The federal government is overseeing a program of massive deforestation on Western public lands. Some 7.4 million acres of pinyon-juniper forest in the care of the Bureau of Land Management in Nevada, Utah and southern Idaho are targeted for destruction over the next several years — an area larger than the state of Vermont. Why wipe out millions of acres