Biscuit Rally: Old growth logging is now active

Subject: Biscuit Rally: Old growth logging is now active, Please Distribute

Time to get busy defending Biscuit. The LSR is released and the court
won't hear the case until March. Large trees are falling and the largest
timber sale of modern times could be done before a court ruling.
Please foward this alert...


Rally to Protect the Kalmiopsis roadless area
Next Saturday, February 5th

For more info please call KS Wild at (541) 488-5789

10:00 AM
Selma Center in Selma, Oregon
A huge rally with people from across the region
to demonstrate in favor of protecting Fiddler
Mountain and the Babyfoot Lake area and against
extreme post-fire logging. Bring signs and
banners to make your voice heard! Bring friends
& family and spread the word!

If logging begins at the Fiddler Mountain /
Babyfoot lake area, a vigil and information
sharing site will be located at the botanical
area on the Eight Dollar Road (about a mile up
Forest Road 4201 just before the first cattle
guard) starting at noon the day logging begins.

MORE INFO:
The Bush Forest Service is planning to log 6,300
acres of old-growth reserves in the wild Siskiyou
as part of the so-called "Biscuit Fire Recovery
Project." Old-growth reserves are special places
normally protected from logging to provide a
safety net of habitat for sensitive wildlife
species.

The seven logging sales mentioned above put many
irreplaceable landscapes at risk. The Fiddler
Mountain and Babyfoot Lake area, a beautiful
place graced by native, unroaded forests, rare
flowers, scenic views and wonderful hiking
trails, is a prime example. It is also one of
the areas most at risk of imminent logging. Near
the Kalmiopsis Wilderness in southwestern
Oregon’s Siskiyou Wild Rivers area, Fiddler
Mountain is loved by people locally and across
the region.

The Bush Forest Service put Fiddler Mountain on
the chopping block and sold it for a minimum,
subsidized bid price. As a result, 14.7 million
board feet of logging could take place across 697
acres of native forest at heavy taxpayer expense.
As a whole, the Biscuit logging project is
running far over budget, costing taxpayers much
more than the Forest Service originally forecast.
The larger Biscuit logging project threatens to
cost taxpayers between $10 and $30 million.

In addition, the Forest Service is currently
logging old-growth legacy trees on Squaw Mountain
as part of the Briggs Cedar logging sale. The
Forest Service has recently painted over orange
"leave tree" markings on many of the largest
trees in the area with blue "cut" paint. As a
result, the Briggs Cedar logging sale suddenly
includes much more old-growth legacy tree logging
than when it was originally planned. Logging is
proceeding despite wet weather conditions that
may increase erosion and the threat of spreading
the lethal Port-Orford-cedar root disease.