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Oregon Forests at Risk From the Rescissions Logging Rider 

 July 17, 1996 



Umpqua National Forest 



Contact: Frands Eatherington - Umpqua Watersheds Inc., 541/673-7649 



38. Watchdog: Portions of this Option 9 sale will be clearcut. Over 7.5 



mmbf will be cut From 180 acres, an area which drains into 

 the Clearwater and North Umpqua Watersheds. Cutthroat 

 trout are resident in these streams. 



39. Snog: The highest bidder, Huffman & Right, was able to purchase 



this sale at a price of $421/mbf. A percentage of the 182 

 acres will be aearcut to produce 9.2 mmbf, logmng which 

 would greatly affect the Dog Prairie Creek and I^orth Umpqua 

 watersheds. 



40. Pinestrip: Boise Cascade bid $545/mbf for this sale along Fish Creek. 



The 100 acres is planned to generate nearly 5 mmbf, a portion 

 of which will be clearcut. 



41. Roughneck: Roughneck, Snog, Pinestrip and Watchdog are all in the 



drainage basin for the North Umpqua River. These timber 

 sales total 29 mmbf on 630 acres in the headwaters of the 

 nver. For these four sales, the Forest Service has ignored the 

 procediires their own regulations require, most notably, 

 examining the potential impacts the sales may have on fish 

 and aquatic habitat. TTie forest has also ignored the Biological 

 Evaluations of its top fisheries biologist, wnich show that the 

 dearcuts will harm tne Umpqua River cutthrout trout and its 

 habitat. The trout is a candidate for listing under the ESA; 

 fewer than 100 individuals are believed to remain. Logeing 

 has begun on Roughneck, and will soon start on the others. 



42. Gage: Seventy-eight percent of the 525 acres will be dearcut for 7.7 



mmbf of timber. Tlie highest bidder offered $536 for this 

 sale, which drains into the South Umpqua River. The Gage 

 sale is in a key watershed, a cutthroat trout, coho, and winter 

 steelhead habitat. It is also in an owl take area. 



43. Jadt: The entire 192 acres of this Late Successional Reserve sale will 



be dearcut to generate 6.5 mbf. Jack drains into Elk Creek 

 and Ae South Umpqua River, and the same spedes which 

 are threatened in tne Gage sale would be affected by the 

 logging in these units. 



44. Redlick: Qearcutting has already begun by the Superior timber 



company on the 333 acre sale. Despite the large area to be 

 cut, only 4 mmbf of hmber will result. Coho, cutthroat trout. 



