Stop logging on the doorstep of Crater Lake

Photo by Francis Eatherington. “The legal status of the 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule (RACR) continues to be unstable.”

That’s a direct quote from the Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) for the DBug timber sale. Despite the Obama adminsitrations support for strong roadless protections, The Forest Service is using legal uncertainty surrounding the Roadless Rule to push forward with unpopular logging and road building in pristine areas in our public forests.

Use the form below to let the Forest Service know that—in Oregon—the Roadless Rule should still rule!

It's most important that you take action, but messages have added weight if you personalize them --tell the forest service why you don't want to see hiking trails on the doorstep of Crater Lake turned into logging roads at taxpayer expense!

Thanks for helping to protect our roadless backcountry heritage.

Umpqua

Subject:

Your Letter:

Dear Forest Supervisor Clifford Dils,

Please accept this letter as my comments on the Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) for the D-Bug Hazard Reduction Timber Sale.

Commercial logging, road-building, and other destructive activities do not belong in our roadless wildlands, recreation areas, important watersheds, and wildlife habitat.

The intent of the immensely popular 2001 Roadless Rule was to protect what remained of our pristine roadless wildlands.  Secretary Vilsack’s welcomed directive of May 28th, made clear that the Obama administration supports that goal.

The D-Bug timber sale violates both the letter and intent of the Roadless Rule.   The proposed project goes far above and beyond what is needed to protect human property.  It seriously damages recreational opportunities, scenic beauty, wildlife habitat, and pristine wildlands.  The project should be scrapped, or dramatically reduced in size and scope.

You are charged with the awesome responsibility of managing a world-class recreation area, and some of the most precious wildlands in Oregon.

In light of our current economic situation, and the clear will of the public, our limited resources should be spent on decommissioning roads, and thinning genuine hazard trees near human habitation.  Not on wasteful projects like D-Bug.

Thank you for considering my comments.

Very Sincerely,

Clifford J. Dils

Umpqua National Forest
2900 NW Stewart Parkway
Roseburg, OR 97471
US

Vilsack

Subject:

Your Letter:

Dear Secretary Vilsack

Just to the North of Crater Lake National Park are some of America’s most precious and pristine national treasures.  The lands surrounding Diamond Lake, Lemolo Lake, Mt. Thielsen, and Mt. Bailey are prized for their recreational, environmental, and scenic values.  However, the proposed D-Bug Project puts them at risk.

I just submitted comments to Umpqua Forest Supervisor Clifford Dils regarding the project.  I informed him that I did not welcome this ill-conceived project.  It is based on uncertainty surrounding the 2001 Roadless Rule and a need to protect the “Wildland Urban Interface”.  However, the project goes far beyond that.  It includes more logging and roading in inventoried roadless areas than occurred during the last 8 years across the entire country!

The project also includes old-growth logging, commercial logging, and road-building far from any urban areas.  Affected areas include proposed wilderness, designated recreation areas, and prime habitat for spotted owls, pacific fishers, martens, and maybe even wolverines.  Sadly the project even includes the conversion of miles of hiking trails into logging roads.

Thank you for calling a timeout on destructive projects in roadless areas.  Your support for the 2001 Roadless Rule is welcomed.  I hope you will use your authority to stop this terrible project and work to reinstate the original 2001 Rule so that in the future, projects like this are not even considered.

Very Sincerely,

Tom Vilsack

US Department of Agriculture

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Stop logging on the doorstep of Crater Lake

Umpqua

Clifford J. Dils

Vilsack

Tom Vilsack