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Oreeon Forests at Risk From the Rescissions Loeeinft Rider 

 July 17, 1996 ^ 



29. BBerry Thin: This sale logs 4.3 million board feet on steep slopes in Elk 

 River Key Watershed and partially within an LSR. 



30. Waters Thin Salvage: 



31. Tin Can Salvage: 



32. Everclear 



33. Shasta Costa Thin 



34. Tip Top Salvage: 



35. Fullhouse: 



Tliis sale involves 2.7 miles of new road 

 construction, and logs steep slopes adjacent and 

 upstream of a coho salmon and steelhead 

 spawning stream (Waters Creeic). Tlie Forest 

 Service tripled the volume of the sale after the 

 sale was approved, from 4 million bojurd feet to 

 11.7 mmbft While taeged a tliinning sale. Waters 

 Thin will actually high-grade many of the largest 

 trees, that hold steep slopes and unstable soi^ in 

 place. Tlie sale doesn't protect buffers along 

 several intermittent streams and will cut large- 

 diameter trees ir\side a Riparian Reserve, on steep 

 slopes within 50 feet of the stream. This logging 

 threatens water quality and fisheries habitat tor 

 two species proposed for listing under the 

 Endangered Spedes Act, the coastal coho salmon 

 and the Klamath Mountain Province steelhead 

 trout. 



This sale logs 1,500 mbf of healthy old growth trees. 



This sale logs 1,080 mbf from the headwaters of Qear 

 Creek, an important salmon stream. 



These sales will log 3,000 mbf near a key salmon 

 spawrung stream within a Key Watershed and Late 

 Successional Reserve and will enter the Shasta Costa 

 Roadless Area. 



This Option 9 sale logs 3,200 mbf of old growth. 



36. Snowcamp Port Orford ■ 



Disease ControL- This sale logs healthy old growth Port Orford Cedars, 



some 400 or more years old, and many more trees from 

 along Road 1376 as a form of "sanitation." However, 

 dosing a road which is a major route for pathogen 

 entry would serve the same purpose better and more 

 effiaently. 



37. Bucking Horse: 



This sale logs 1,910 mbf of old growth in a Key 

 Watershed with at least one unit in an LSR. 



