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Sequoia National Forest 

 ?7. Red Helicopter Salvage Sale 



Ranger District 



Tule 



Volume (mmbf) 



1.5 



Project Acres 



N/A 



Logging Acres 



N/A 



Location 



The sale includes areas adjacent to the Slate Mountain Roadless Area. 



Impact 



The Sequoia National Forest is not experiencing a "forest health" crisis. In fact, this Forest like others in 

 California has had a significant salvage program for years. The pre-Rescissions Act salvage program has pro- 

 duced so much salvage that there are few if any dead and dying trees lett. Arthur Galifrey, the Forest 

 Supervisor, in an April I2th address to the Socien.- of American Foresters stated that "[a]t present, neither the 

 Sequoia or Sierra National Forests have a significant amount ol dead trees '. Without dead trees to cut, this 

 Forest like others has turned to cutting green trees with all the impunity provided by PL 104-19. 



PL 104-19 was promoted as a strategy for improving forest health by reducing the risk of catastrophic fire. 

 Residual fuels after logging activities often exceed the amount of natural ftiels present before the salv.ige there- 

 fore increasing the fire risk. Logging on the Red Helicopter site will leave a dangerous level of slash and fuels 

 at the site over a ten year period. Thus, the manner in which the thinning of green trees is planned will prob- 

 ably increase the risk of fire. 



For additional information: 



Carla Cloer, Sequoia Alliance, 209/781 8445 

 Ray West, Tule River Conservancy, 209/542 2203 



Green tree toggiJ as udvagefiom riparian reserve. 

 (Anthony Ambrose) 



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