But in practice, nothing can protect the forest once a logging road is opened up.
That would be another walk along an old logging road now publicly owned.
Though markings are thin at times, the trail is fairly easy to follow until it joins with a logging road.
The planned first takeout is on the logging road that runs into Goodnow Road about six miles south of the hamlet of Newcomb.
Under the Ninth Circuit ruling, a permit could be demanded for every drain and ditch that directs water from a logging road to a fish-bearing stream.
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The tapping operations typically involve 20 to 100 taps, usually by people who simply pull up alongside a logging road and drill holes into the closest trees, she said.
In the jungle town of Thmar Baing--population about 150--wooden huts are springing up along a logging road, where residents, mostly military men and their families, keep gibbons as pets.
The Department of Environmental Conservation will issue an interim access plan within a few weeks that is expected to enable paddlers to walk 0.8 of a mile from the iron bridge just below the Goodnow River confluence along an old logging road to parking, agency officials said.
As we descended from the mountain in our hired truck--one of only two on the mountain, and therefore obliged to give rides to anyone along the logging road, including several armed soldiers--it occurred to me how few places in today's globalized, networked and wired world are truly remote.
The proposal will not address the issue of logging or off-road activity as some environmentalist had hoped.
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It says one of Russia's biggest logging firms, Primorlesprom, is preparing to build a road through the Sikhote-Alin, one of the last untouched forests.
Using its own tactics, the union held its ship in Vancouver harbour for days with a log boom, and then blocked a road to bar the greens' access to a further logging site.
And once the road is built, the Udege say, no amount of legal protection will stop the logging or protect the tigers, which now number probably fewer than 500 animals.
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