SEQUIM — Bill Shoaf spent much of Friday planting seedlings in Sequim, one of many environmental improvement projects he regularly participates in as a volunteer.
The Clallam County resident thinks so highly of trees, in fact, he’s spent 10 years fighting the U.S. government, in and out of court, to protect them.
“The timber accountability practices up there are the worst things you could probably imagine,” said Shoaf, a former inspector and agent for the U.S. Forest Service who served in Alaska’s Tongass National Forest from 1990 to 1995.
“If I were to design a system to allow someone to steal logs, I couldn’t come up with a better one than the one in place,” he said.
—————-
The rest of the story appears in the Sunday Peninsula Daily News.