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USFS has $100 million in projects ready to go
January 3, 2009 /
Montana’s forests could play a part in putting America back to work, according to a group of timber and wilderness advocates.
The U.S. Forest Service has about $100 million in “shovel-ready” forest restoration projects on the shelf that could put loggers, scientists, heavy-equipment operators and other timber-related workers on the payroll, members of the Montana Forest Restoration Committee said.
That backlog could be turned into 1,337 full- and part-time jobs, according to an analysis by the Wilderness Society, one of the committee’s partners.
By ROB CHANEY of the Missoulian
Full Story: http://missoulian.com/articles/2009/01/03/news/local/news03.txt
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