Don, You can download the revised management plan for the project at:
http://www.fs.fed.us/r3/kai/projects/jacob-ryan/JR_EA_Revision.pdf If you look at it the plan goes over and over about the need for thinning and other management in certain areas of the forest to reduce fire risk and promote goshawk habitat - although aside from arm waving drivel it is vague on how their plans will actually do anything that will help the goshawk population. Much of the plan is based upon dangers they have projected that will exist in 2053. It is an amazing coincidence that their projections of the dangers involved match up so well with what they originally planned to do when the plan was first proposed in the mid- 90's without thought of these exacting numerical justifications. There is no rationale presented for doing anything to the old growth forest identified in the plan, yet it is to be thinned and harvested. In fact many areas previously identified as old growth are now classified as mature or younger forests in this latest revision. Sure looks like a hatchet job to me. Edward Frank "Oh, I call myself a scientist. I wear a white coat and probe a monkey every now and then, but if I put monetary gain ahead of preserving nature...I couldn't live with myself." - Professor Hubert Farnsworth ----- Original Message ----- From: Don Bertolette To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, October 23, 2009 1:02 AM Subject: [ENTS] Re: Kaibab Plateau, AZ While I am in NO way an apologist for the NKF, the forest is old, it is habitat for the Goshawk, although there is significant controversy between raptor experts (my last NPS supervisor/mentor was one of them and I recommend reading papers by him, for one side of this story. His name is Cole Crocker-Bedford. His stands against the logging of goshawk habitat on the Tongass National Forest in Alaska are legion. I am having a senior moment trying to recall the other goshawk biologist...Richard ....maybe Reid? Don Sent from Don's iPhone 3GS... On Oct 22, 2009, at 6:25 PM, Josh Kelly <[email protected]> wrote: > > Lovely! > > I'm sure there is some hyperbole in the press release, but there is no > way that timber sale will be a good one. > > Josh > > On Oct 22, 9:17 pm, "Edward Frank" <[email protected]> wrote: >> People >> >> FYI: Form the Center for Biological Diversity: >> >> This Tuesday, the Center for Biological Diversity sharply >> criticized the U.S. Forest Service's latest take on devastating >> plans to log old-growth trees in the Kaibab National Forest. >> Unfortunately for the forest -- which houses the country's largest >> breeding population of the imperiled northern goshawk -- the Forest >> Service has issued a new environmental assessment for the >> controversial Jacob Ryan timber sale, which would log 26,000 acres >> but was halted in May thanks to work by the Center and Sierra Club. >> The new assessment drops protections for old-growth trees, >> essentially stating that the Kaibab Plateau has too much old growth >> -- so axing those irksome old, large trees will be good for wildlife. >> >> This marks the Forest Service's fourth attempt to move forward with >> Jacob Ryan, and the Center will work to make sure it's the last. >> >> Edward Frank >> >> "Oh, I call myself a scientist. I wear a white coat and probe a >> monkey every now and then, but if I put monetary gain ahead of >> preserving nature...I couldn't live with myself." - Professor >> Hubert Farnsworth > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Eastern Native Tree Society http://www.nativetreesociety.org Send email to [email protected] Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/entstrees?hl=en To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
