The Statesman Journal must have been hard up for a lead article and headline on Oct. 12, "Study: Logging imperils 3 Oregon forests." If anything will knock storms, earthquakes or wars off the front page, it's the cutting of trees.

Come on, editors, your bias against the timber industry is showing again. What would any reasonable person expect a report by 136 environmental groups, advocating zero cut, to conclude?

Such inflammatory headlines followed by an article full of easy quotes from both sides of the issue and a forest service employee who I assume is supposed to be neutral do a great disservice to your readers. This type of reporting can be only one of two things, an I-don't-care attitude or a staff to lazy to find out if there are any facts to support such an outrageous headline.