Salvage loggingWhy: Lawmakers and the timber industryOpponents: Forest Service for Environmental Ethics (FSEEE) employeesLegislators defined “salvage logging” as the act of felling unhealthy forest stands, considered to have a likelihood of experiencing extreme insect and disease infestation resulting from catastrophic fires. However, there is no scientific consensus for describing an unhealthy forest, predicting or classifying catastrophic fire, or classifying insect and disease damage. Salvage logging was an alternative way to meet demand for timber and generate revenue for timber industries and legislators without much opposition from the public. This is because the laws allowing such logging practices are very vague and confusing. Lawmakers argue that sales resulting from such practices bring money to the Treasury while making forests “healthier.” Supporters claimed that timber harvesting would reduce fuel loads to reduce fire intensity and thin forest stands to relieve competition between trees. While this seems plausible, the criteria for determining what types of trees would be cut down and who would make the decision still remain unanswered. Salvage logging is an attempt to undermine excessive logging and controlled logging. Excessive logging obviously leads to deforestation, as is the case in most parts of the world today. The savannahs of Africa, the steppes of Eastern Europe and Russia, the pampas of Argentina, and at least some grasslands of North America were once forested before human disturbance. Employees of the Forest Service for Environmental Ethics (FSEEE) are strongly opposed to these kinds of vague laws employed by legislators in the area of ​​salvage logging. In some cases, this practice has been called "lawless logging" because it exempts logging companies involved in salvage sales from most environmental laws, including the Endangered Species Act, the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act, National Forest Management Act, National Forestry Act. Environmental Policy Act and Safe Drinking Water Act. This also allows large areas of forest to be clear-cut. This prevents citizens from exercising their right to challenge illegal logging projects. FSEEE also suggests that such vague laws will permit mass clear-cutting of healthy trees and will also direct the federal government to significantly increase timber harvests. Allowing deforestation by the federal government through such vague laws gradually contributes to global deforestation and a corresponding increase in species. extinction. Reforestation, through replanting, is carried out on only a fraction of the deforested area, and it generally creates a monoculture plantation, with much less biological diversity and less disease resistance than in virgin or old-growth forests...