Upper Rogue River Forests Targeted For Logging - Please Take Action Today
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“Bybee” Timber Sale Near Crater
Lake.
The Forest Service has recently released plans to punch logging roads into wilderness quality forests directly adjacent to the boundary of Crater Lake National Park in the headwaters of the Upper Rogue River.
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For years conservationists have been successfully working with timber planners in the Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest to move the Forest Service away from the clearcutting of ancient forests and towards watershed restoration. We had hoped that the Forest Service was turning over a new leaf.
Can You Teach and Old Dog New Tricks?
Unfortunately Rogue-River Siskiyou timber planners have gone back to their old ways by proposing very aggressive “overstory removal” logging and significant new logging road construction in the native forests adjacent to the Crater Lake National Park.
While the “Bybee” timber sale is couched in the language of “forest health” it contains a number of proposals known to harm wildlife and watersheds. The timber sale calls for “overstory removal” (old-growth logging), “shelterwood harvest” (two-stage clearcutting), and “group selection” logging (small clearcuts), that would be facilitated by constructing 6.5 more miles of logging roads in this heavily roaded watershed.
Stand Up For the Crater Lake Wildlands!!
Please Click Here to send an auto-letter to High Cascades District Ranger Kerwin Dewberry letting him know that you value the wildlands and watersheds of the Upper Rogue River!
