8-99 Lawsuit Filed To Clean Up Mountain Air. Forest protection is not a part of the equation. The League of Conservation Voters has released its 1998 National Environmental Scorecard. The scorecard is based on eight votes in the Senate and 13 votes in the House, selected by a panel of environmental group advisers. The votes involved issues such as property rights, funding priorities, international family planning, logging in national forests, and global warming.
Forests provide homes for wildlife.
Logging destroys wildlife homes, causes soil erosion, sedimentation in streams and lakes, and harms air and water quality. Half of the hardwood lumber production in 1992 was used to make shipping pallets. Pesticides kill 7 million birds per year. Fish and wildlife officers try to protect birds from deadly pesticides. FMC Corporation continues to sell deadly pesticides, and it hires away EPA regulators to work as consultants.