Clearcutting is coming to Indiana state forest

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This is the first four paragraphs of an article titled "Mitch Daniels Targets Indiana's Hardwood Forests - Bush Crony Plots 400% Hike in Clearcutting" at http://www.counterpunch.org/higgs11102005.html

Kyle Hupfer came to Bloomingtonm Indiana on Oct. 25 to defend his plan to clearcut Indiana State Forests as a science-based approach to public lands management.

But the director of the Indiana Department of Natural Resources (DNR) spent most of a 212-hour public forum deflecting charges that his science is little more than thinly veiled cover for a radical political agenda.

Not only did Hupfer acknowledge that Gov. Mitch Daniels and his DNR plan to increase logging on the 150,000-acre state forest system by 400 percent, but they will clearcut "hundreds of acres a year," in State Forester Jack Seifert's words.

And they will cut trees in deep forest areas that have historically been off limits to chainsaws.