Stopping Destructive Logging: Timber Sales
The Cascadia Wildlands Project carefully monitors activities on public lands, including thousands of acres of timber sales each year. Through public education and outreach, we aim to empower people to advocate on behalf of threatened places. Over the past 10 years we have successfully stopped dozens of old-growth logging projects through citizen involvement, grassroots organizing campaigns and legal challenges. Below you will find descriptions and status of numerous timber sales. For more information on any of these logging projects, including ways to help protect these places, please contact Josh Laughlin at jlaughlin@cascwild.org or 541.434.1463.
National Forest timber sales:
1) Five Buttes Project (Deschutes National Forest)
2) Thorn Fire Recovery Project (Malheur National Forest): The Malheur National Forest recently signed the record of decision for the Thorn Fire Salvage Recovery Project on the Malheur National Forest which authorizes logging on 2,529 acres of forest burned in the 2006 Shake Table Fire, generating 21.9 million board feet of timber. Both the Cedar Grove Potential Wilderness Area and the Dry Cabin Potential Wilderness Area will be entered to facilitate logging. The Cascadia Wildlands Project has provided extensive comment on this harmful proposal since it first surfaced and continues to engage the Forest Service on the issue.
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