Ed- Thanks for the URL!
Sent from Don's iPhone 3GS... On Oct 23, 2009, at 2:43 PM, "Edward Frank" <[email protected]> wrote: > 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] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
