South End Timber Sale in the Klamath National Forest
Shasta red fir in within the South Clark timber sale in the KNF.
28,000-acre Timber Sale With No NEPA?!?
When is public land management at its best? When it's collaborative, transparent and thoughtful. When does public land management tend to go sideways? When the agency is siloed and corners are cut when planning a large timber sale.
As part of the new Wildfire Crisis Strategy the Forest Service has recently been exempting landscape level timber sale proposals from NEPA analysis and robust collaboration in favor of an internal categorical exclusion check-list. Check out the 28,000-acre South End timber sale on the Klamath National Forest here.