Help the Forest Service do the right thing- send an Auto Letter Now
The Forest Service needs a nudge in the right direction. The High Cascades Ranger District recently released an Environmental Assessment for the Rustler Timber Sale, an area near the Sky Lakes Wilderness on the Upper Rogue River.
The tributary streams to Big Butte Creek are in
the project area, as are many old clearcuts and fire-suppressed forests
that could be thinned and restored. KS Wild supports these actions,
along with road decommissioning in this heavily impacted forest.
The project would be great if the Forest Service could just stop there
and do the right thing. Unfortunately, in addition to several thousand
acres of thinning, the Forest Service is proposing to log large
overstory trees in order to, in their own words, “establish a new crop
of trees.” They are also proposing to build 10 miles of road and log
near streams, both activities know to harm water quality and wildlife
habitat.
We need your help to convince the Forest Service to stay out of the
old-growth logging and road building business. They should embrace
forest restoration and thinning small trees that are the result of
clearcut logging/plantation forestry and decades of fire exclusion.
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The Klamath-Siskiyou Region
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