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Oregon Forests at Risk From the Rescissions Loeeine Rider 

 July 17, 1996 



76. Sunrise 



77. Lookout: 



78. Night: 



pristine, high volume, cool aeek. Logging, especially on 

 steep slopes, would seriously jeopardize soil stability and 

 water quality. Tliere is a high commercial mushroom value 

 here. The stands are mostly green and healtlny; where it is 

 defoliated, there are still surfiaent green overstory trees and 

 live regeneration to recover naturally. 



These two sales enter a roadless area with steep slopes over 

 tributaries to active salmon and steelhead habitat in the 

 Noddle Fork of the John Day River. Logging would also 

 occur on slopes over known redband and bml trout habitat as 

 well as in habitats of pileated, blackbacked, and northern 

 three-toed woodpeckers. Logging would take place over 1,896 

 acres, and woula greatly diminisn the recreational value of the 

 area - elk hunting, morel mushroom picking, and hiking. 



The Night timber sale would produce 1.3 mmbf, gathered 

 from 256 aaes. 



PRAIRIE CITY RANGER DISTRICT 



79. Qear Creek: Logging would occur within old growth ponderosa pine, fir, 



and western larch habitat in the Dear Creek sale. Most sale 

 units are live, green forest and include a range of tree species 

 such as Englemans spruce, subalpine fir and lodgepole pine. 

 The area has a high riparian value and its logging could have 

 a detrimental impact on water Quality. Tlie Clear sale is an 

 excellent habitat for diverse wilolife species such as lynx and 

 snowshoe hares. A huge sale, over 17 mmbf would be 

 logged from 2360 acres. 



80. Powder Though a high intensity fire sale, the Powder sale was 



formerly cancelled by tne District Ranger as too potentially 

 hazardous to water quality and fisheries values due to highly 

 erosive slopes. Tlie sale was resurrected under the P.L. 104- 

 19 "salvage' rider and remains both unwise and 

 uneconomical. It was twice put up for sale with no takers 

 and finally sold without being re-advertised in what is 

 suspected to have been a closed door "any price you offer" 

 deal. The sale site is a beautiful area v«tn nearby 

 campgrounds, with active elk and deer populations. This sale 

 would produce 2.5 mmbf over 473 acres. 



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