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Oregon Forests at Risk From the Rescissions Locgine Rider 



July 17, 1996 



8. Upper Renhaven: 



Over two million board feet will be dearcut off of 45 

 acres in a LSR in this sale. Coho salmon and cutthroat 

 trout would be endangered by the logging. 



9. Yellow Creek: Trees up to 27" dbh would be cut as a part of this dearcut. 



Nearly lO mmbf will be logged in an LSk as part of this sale. 



10. Dead Middleman: Qose to 10 mmbf will be dearcut on 197 acres in a key 



watershed near Deadman Creek in the Dead Middleman 

 sale. Winter steelhead in addition to coho and 

 cutthroat fish will be greatly affected. 



11. Jeffers Revenge: 



12. Millers View: 



13. Idleyld 



14. Lean Louis 



15. Hubbard 



16. Old DiUard 



17. Coon Creek 



18. Samson Butte: 



Qearcutting on 74 acres will generate a net 3.9 mmbf 

 for timber; a total of 4.8 mmbf will be felled in the 

 Jeffers Revenge sale. 



This 63 acre dearcut contains 117 mbf in Sugar pine, 

 which is appraised at a value twice that of Douglas fir. 



These BLM sales are aU Option 9 sales. Like other 

 Option 9 sales, dtizen appeals and all environmental 

 rules on these sales were voided by the passage of P.L. 

 104-19, the Resdssions Act Logging Rider. Nearly 27 

 mmbf will be cut from the seven sales combined, over 

 a 1037 acre spread. For the Lean Louis sale, the 

 Record of Decision (ROD) was for 5 mmbf. However, 

 an amount of 7.3 mmbf will actually be sold as timber. 



Bureau of Land Management - Coos Bay 



Contact: Lisa Brown - Coast Range Assodation, 503/758-0255 



19. China Creek: A Section 318 sale, the China Creek Sale covers 37 



acres, and is a possible nesting site for marbled 

 murrelets. 



