This is a pretty amazing story. A graduate student at Oregon State University does a little study and gets it published in Science. Good for him, right?
Well, no, because his results are inconvenient for the thuggish cabal running Congress.
You see, Daniel Donato's study showed that post-fire logging hurt forest regrowth, and Congress was busy considering legislation that would allow timber companies to salvage log after fires on federal land. This was always a sop to timber companies, but it was sold with a veneer of science: that salvage logging aided regrowth. So Donato's timing was unfortunate.
Oregon State Forestry Dean Hal Salwasser, who supported the bill, started getting grumpy emails from his extraction buddies in industry and politics: