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these listed salmon species will be increased at a time when their condition is particularly 

 precarious. If these nine sales are released with only their pre-consultation terms, their 

 environmental effects could jeopardize the continued existence of the Upper Grande Ronde 

 River populations of spring/summer chinook salmon. These salmon are an important 

 component of the remnant population of Grand Ronde River spring/summer chinook, which 

 would also be put at greater risk of extinction." (Pgs. 9—10) 



Several severely depressed coastal salmon, cutthroat and steelhead stocks will 

 likely be extinguished: 



Section 3 1 8 sales are "clustered" in areas where coho salmon, searun cutthroat and steelhead stocks 

 are the most seriously depressed and are ESA candidate species, inchiding several runs of vital 

 importance to both commercial and recreational fisheries. The US government as well as the State 

 of Oregon is spending tens of millions of dollars trying to rescue these fish fi-om extinction while 

 simuhaneously several "section 318" sales will likely seriously damage or utterly extinguish some of 

 these remnant runs. If these sales proceed it will make a coastwide ESA listing of coho salmon far 

 more likdy, and recovery efforts &r more difficult, which will mean more coastal fishing closures in 

 order to protect these weak stocks, and hundreds of millions of dollars more loss to our industry. 



Sworn declaration of Jacqueline Wyland: 



Chetco River sales: 



"Logging these sales fm the Chetco River] as originally planned will likely result in 

 significant cumulative advene effects to adjacent and downstream habitats for KMP steelhead 

 and coho sabnon due to the small size of the watershed, the large number of timber harvest 

 units in the watershed, the watershed's steep slopes and unconsolidated soils, and inadequate 

 riparian protection provided by the original timber sale designs." (Pg. 19) 



Umpqua River sales: 



"Stream buffers inchided in the timber sale layout for Dead Middleman [one of several sales] 

 are inadequate to protect fisheries and aquatic resources. Unit 1 contains a 700-foot long 

 s^ment offish beating (second order) stream that would receive only a 25-foot buffer. The 

 seven total timber sale units also have approximately 10,000 feet of unbuffered first- and 

 second-order streams. Although many are intermittent, some are very hkely fish-bearing 

 streams during part of the year. The fish-bearing streams contain resident cutthroat trout, 

 which are included in the ESU proposed as "threatened." .... The aggregate effects of this 

 timber sale, when combined with the effects of other Forest Service and BLM '318' timber 

 sales in the South Fork, would adversely affect the anadromous fish resources of the South 

 Fork, particularly Unqjqua cutthroat trout." (Pg. 20) 



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