Lowbagger Action Alert:
Two Biscuit Roadless Sales to Move Forward

These new sales, called Mike’s Gulch and Blackberry, are the first timber sales in Inventoried Roadless Areas since Clinton’s Roadless Rule was made law in 2000. The Roadless Rule was removed by George W., despite more than 2.5 million public comments supporting it, and now proposed protections are deferred to the Governor of each state. Our Governor here in Oregon, Ted Kulongoski, wrote a letter to Mark Rey (head of the Forest Service in D.C.) last summer demanding the Forest Service halt plans to log in the Inventoried Roadless Area in Biscuit. On top of that, these new sales come on the heals of recent scientific evidence about how salvage logging in the Biscuit area has harmed natural recovery, increased future fire fuels and cost the American taxpayer more than 14 million dollars.

The Mike’s Gulch timber sale is located 1.5 miles above the Wild and Scenic Illinois River in the south Kalmiopsis roadless area. The Blackberry timber sale is located in the roadless Indigo watershed in the north Kalmiopsis roadless area, just south of the Rogue River. The places are precious, places were wild salmon are given the chance to thrive, places families go hiking and rafting, rare places were people can see nature in its most wild and untamed setting. They are not places for clearcuts and tree farms. Don’t let the Forest Service and the Bush administration set a precedent here in Oregon with the first Inventoried Roadless Area timber sales to get logged! Please take the time to contact the elected officials below and urge them to stop these destructive sales from moving forward!

To find out more information and how to get more involved with this or other issues, contact the Cascadia Widllands Project.