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> Massive Lewis & Clark Logging Planned
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> Originally posted in IGC member conference: ef.general
> Date: September 16, 1999
> Posted by: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> /* Written 2:56 PM Sep 16, 1999 by [EMAIL PROTECTED] in ef.general */
> /* ---------- "ALERT:Massive Lewis+Clark logging" ---------- */
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> ACTION ALERT: ON EVE OF LEWIS AND CLARK BICENTENNIAL, CLEARWATER NATIONAL
> FOREST PLANS TO LOG OVER 8,000 ACRES NEAR ONLY REMAINING ROADLESS PORTION
> OF LEWIS AND CLARK TRAIL
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> September, 1999: Idaho's Clearwater National Forest (CNF) just released a plan
> to log 75 million board-feet on 8,280 acres, within and adjacent to the North
> Lochsa Slope Roadless Area. This area contains the only remaining roadless
> portion of the historic Lewis and Clark trail as well as the proposed Lewis and
> Clark Wilderness Area. Lewis and Clark journeyed across the country in 1805, so
> the logging would be just in time for the Lewis and Clark bicentennial
> celebrations happening around the region. Comments are accepted on the North
> Lochsa Face Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) until October 8, 1999.
> Let the CNF know that such a massive logging project is inappropriate anytime on
> the fragile soils of the Clearwater National Forest, but especially during the
> bicentennial.
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> The North Lochsa Face FEIS describes plans to:
> *Commercially log 8,280 acres of land, an estimated 75 million board-feet.
> The methods used will be approximately 50% skyline hauling, 25% tractor
> hauling, and 25% helicopter logging.
> *Precommercially thin an additional 1,290 acres.
> *Log an additional 2,250 acres under the guise of "off-site species
> conversion," which is clearcutting of ponderosa pine planted in the 1930's
> which was originally obtained from an off-site location.
> *Unspecified amounts of noxious weed control including manual pulling,
> herbicide spraying, and the release of biocontrol agents (predatory
> insects).
> *600 acres of streamside tree plantings along Pete King and Fish Creeks.
> *Allows motorized use in all current areas.
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> Send comments to: Cynthia Lane, District Ranger, Lochsa Ranger District,
> Rt. 1, Box 398, Kooskia ID 83539, by October 8, 1999.
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> Suggested comment points include:
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> *This sale is massive in size. It is nearly as large as all Cove/Mallard
> sales combined, which was until recently the largest timber sale in the
> history of Region 1. It proposes to log nearly 8,000 acres of forest.
> The Forest Service is supposed to be in a more enlightened era when the
> health of watersheds comes first. If this is so, why are they proposing
> this abomination along the Lochsa Wild and Scenic River and scenic Highway
> 12 corridor, near Lewis and Clark's trail, during the Lewis and Clark
> bicentennial years?
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> *The forest the sale would destroy is one of the final refuges in the
> entire country for wilderness-dependent carnivores such as wolverine,
> fisher, and possibly lynx. There have been 4 sightings of wolverine in the
> project area! If the Forest Service values these rare species, it will not
> obliterate their habitat.
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> *Numerous other threatened, endangered, and sensitive species reside in the
> project area, and the extensive logging will destroy thousands of acres of their
> prime habitat. The species include bald eagle, black-backed woodpecker, Coeur
> d'Alene salamander, fisher, flammulated owl, northern goshawk, and more.
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> *The proposed logging is on the same type of steep slopes that failed so
> dramatically in the landslides of 1995-1996. Of course, these slopes will
> carry similar landslide potential.
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> *Fish Creek is known as one of the most important steelhead spawning
> grounds in the entire state of Idaho. Most of the Fish Creek watershed is
> proposed Wilderness, except for a small portion of its headwaters. The
> Forest Service plans to log 460 acres in this portion! The logging (mostly
> clearcuts) will cause sedimentation in Fish Creek which will damage the spawning
> grounds.
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> *The Fish Creek roadless area is also famed for its elk herds. Hunters
> come from hours away to hunt the elk there. Elk rely on a delicate balance
> between forage ground and forest, and this sale will disrupt that.
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> *Releasing nonnative insects for biocontrol is very risky. Many times this has
> occurred, the insects switch host plants and end up eating native vegetation,
> disrupting natural predator/prey relationships. This plan to release unnamed
> biocontrol insects in or adjacent to proposed wilderness is dangerous and is
> contrary to the Wilderness Act.
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> FOR MORE INFORMATION, CONTACT:
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> Friends of the Clearwater
> PO Box 9241
> Moscow, ID 83843
> (208) 882-9755
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> OR
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> Idaho Conservation League, North Idaho Office
> PO Box 9783
> Moscow, ID 83843
> (208) 882-1010
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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