>Date: Thu, 04 Apr 96 13:10:41 CST
>From: Remsen <NAJAMES at LSUVM.SNCC.LSU.EDU>
>Subject: Logging Without Laws Bulletin #60 (fwd)
>To: Dennis <dpaulson at ups.edu>>
>----------------------------Original message----------------------------
>Date: Thu, 04 Apr 1996 08:47:12 -0800 (PST)
>From: Western Ancient Forest Campaign <wafcdc at igc.apc.org>
>Subject: Logging Without Laws Bulletin #60
>To: Recipients of conference <mlist.wafcdc at conf.igc.apc.org>
>
>LOGGING WITHOUT LAWS BULLETIN #60 from WAFC, the
>Western Ancient Forest Campaign. Call (202)789-2844x291 or email
>WAFCDC at igc.apc.org
>
>Wednesday, April 4, 1996, the 253rd Day of Lawless Logging
>
>MBS SALES PLANNED: As a result of the Clearcut Timber Rider,
>seven sales on Washington's Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie NF are
>scheduled to be cut as soon as mid-April, says Brian Vincent of the
>Northwest Ecosystem Alliance. "These sales contain some of the
>last remaining low-elevation ancient forests left on the MBS forest,"
>says Vincent. "All of the sales are home to the marbled murrelet .
>. and 1000 other old growth dependent species." The total volume
>of timber scheduled to be cut is 20 mmbf, the equivalent of 600 log
>trucks. The Forest Service stopped cutting ancient forests on the
>MBS in the early 1990s because of environmental concerns. Area
>lawmakers claim they voted for the rider because they support
>"salvage" logging, Vincent says, but they are now responsible "for
>the all-out assault now being waged on our forests and wildlife."
>
>BARKLEY SALE CANCELLED: After a long and bitter struggle,
>California activists have succeeded in stopping the Barkley Salvage
>sale in the Lassen NF, reports Ryan Henson of the California
>Wilderness Coalition. Following bad press in the Sacramento Bee
>about the impact of the sale in undermining the collaborative work
>of the Quincy Library Group, the Forest Service cancelled the sale
>"a mere 24 hours before it was slated to be sold," Henson says.
>The Forest Service cited "escalating public concern" for pulling the
>sale. "California activists wish to thank everyone around the
>country who helped oppose the sale . . and would also like to
>remind people that Barkley is just the first in a long series of
>destructive projects planned in California and other states under the
>rider."
>
>"FOREST SERVICE SAYS": Fact Sheet #10 on the salvage rider by
>the Missoula MT Ecology Center, the Alliance for the Wild Rockies,
>and Citizens Against Lawless Logging quotes various Forest Service
>papers revealing the views of agency personnel on the rider. From
>the agency's notes of discussion about how to insure that a
>vegetation treatment project on the Beaverhead NF qualifies as a
>salvage sale: "And are we really trying to do something that is
>appealable?? . . The timing of this decision is important as to
>whether or not it will be appealable also." And a quote from a
>Payette NF official in the McCall ID Star News, explaining how they
>intend to convert green sales to salvage sales in order to avoid
>appeals: "The fact they are not appealable doesn't hurt us."
>The Star News article says that Ron Hamilton, resources branch
>chief for the Payette "noted that past 'green' or live timber sales
>may be converted to salvage sales in order to fall under regulations
>outlined in [the] 1995 law."
>
>FIRST TEXAS SALES: An 121 acre salvage sale on the Angelina
>District of the National Forests in Texas is the first sale in Texas
>under rider, says Texas Committee on Natural Resources activist
>Ned Fritz. "This timber would be salvaged under P.L. 104-19 and
>is not subject to administrative review," says a notice from the
>Forest Service about the sale. Comments submitted from Fritz and
>George Russell of the Long Star Chapter of the Sierra Club say that
>"it is too early for [the agency] to make a sound decision" as many
>of the "scorched" trees "appear to be recovering, including young
>hardwoods and pines. The Forest Service has already degraded
>surrounding stands with seedtree and other even age cuts. . . You
>have converted too much of our diverse native forests (and not
>merely the trees, but also other levels of horizontal diversity) to
>plantations. We need to save whatever diversity we have left."

Dennis Paulson, Director phone: (206) 756-3798
Slater Museum of Natural History fax: (206) 756-3352
University of Puget Sound e-mail: dpaulson at ups.edu
Tacoma, WA 98416