The federal Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry was contacted for comment on the criticism, as was VicForests, Victoria's logging agency.
But the group has angered environmentalists by failing to consider winding up VicForests, the state logging agency, or shifting timber production to plantations, away from sensitive old-growth areas.
A spokesman for VicForests, the state logging agency that operates in the central highlands, said the level of mountain ash forest harvested is at its lowest point in 20 years.
In his time with the E.P.A., he told me, he occasionally worked from home, where he had difficulty logging onto the agency's server.
While many dams are in a good state of repair, those that aren't are logged by federal agencies and have an EAP on file in the event they fail.
Impressed with the open-source and visual nature of the project, he began designing and uploading icons he had created for his agency — a logging truck, a pruning saw, a blackberry.
By logging each law enforcement agency involved in the 464 deaths, the Guardian can also now report that the Los Angeles police department, the country's third largest local police department, has been involved in the highest number of deaths of any local department.
His bill aims to streamline the planning process at the Forest Service, reduce lawsuits over logging and give the agency a clear task.Unfortunately for Mr Craig's bill, green groups are already working to characterise that task as revving up the chainsaws and having a go at what little pristine national forest they say is left.
West's agency logs around 200m suspicious events a week.
