The timber industry is unimpressed with the Obama Administration’s latest efforts to cloak its failed forest policies in the rhetoric of forest restoration, jobs and old growth protection. In a press conference, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar and other Administration officials sought to downplay the impact of a new Northern Spotted Owl critical habitat proposal on rural Northwest economies by touting the promise of “ecological forestry.” Secretary Salazar sounded the same theme last week in Medford, Oregon during a tour to promote the failed “Pilot Joe” pilot project.