Snow Creek Seneca Right-Of-Way Road Construction Project
The Medford District of the Bureau of Land Management has authorized construction of two logging roads, 714 feet in length and up to 60 feet in width, through an old-growth reserve in southern Oregon. The reserve “is a major habitat link between the Coast Range and the Cascade Provinces" according to planning documents, and road densities in the area are already above recommended levels for properly functioning watersheds.
The Cascadia Wildlands Project is challenging the road construction project with co-plaintiffs Umpqua Watersheds and the Klamath Siskiyou Wildlands Center. Plaintiffs are represented by the CWP’s Legal Director, Dan Kruse. The claim is that the BLM’s failure to consider and disclose the cumulative impacts of the road construction project when added with other past, present, and reasonably foreseeable future projects violates the National Environmental Policy Act.
Legal documents include:
1. Complaint
2. Summary Judgment motion
3. Summary Judgment memo
4. Declaration of George Sexton
5. Attachment to Sexton Declaration
