Recovery loggingSupporters: Legislators and the timber industryOpponents: Forest Service Environmental Ethics (FSEEE) EmployeesLegislators have defined "recovery logging" as the act of clearing forest stands unhealthy, considered to have a likelihood of experiencing extreme insect and disease infestations due to catastrophic fires. However, no scientific consensus exists to describe an unhealthy forest, predict or classify a catastrophic fire, or classify damage resulting from an insect and disease. Restorative logging was an alternative way for timber industries and legislators to meet the demand for timber and generate revenue without much opposition from the public. This is because the laws that allow such logging practices are very vague and confusing. Lawmakers argue that sales from the practice bring money to the Treasury while making forests “healthier.” Supporters said timber harvesting would reduce fuel loads to reduce fire intensity and thin forests to relieve competition among trees. While this seems plausible, the criteria for determining what type of trees would be removed and who would make the decision still remain unanswered. Rescue logging is an attempt to compromise excessive logging and controlled logging. Excessive logging obviously leads to deforestation, as is evident in most areas of the world today. The savannas of Africa, the steppes of Eastern Europe and Russia, the pampas of Argentina, and at least some of the grasslands of North America were forested before they were disturbed by humans. Forest Service Environmental Ethics (FSEEE) employees are strongly opposed to these types of vague laws used by lawmakers in salvage logging. In some cases, the practice has been called "lawless logging" because it exempts timber companies involved in salvage sales from most environmental laws, including the Endangered Species Act, the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act, the National Forest Management Act, the National Environmental Policy Act, and the Safe Drinking Water Act. It also allows the clear cutting of large forest areas. It prevents citizens from exercising their right to challenge illegal logging plans. FSEEE also suggests that such vague laws will allow massive cutting of healthy trees and will also direct the federal government to dramatically increase timber harvests. Allowing deforestation by the federal government with such vague laws gradually contributes to global deforestation and a corresponding increase in species. extinction. Reforestation, through replanting, is carried out on only a fraction of the deforested area and usually creates a monoculture plantation, with much less biological diversity and less disease resistance than virgin or old-growth forests..