Approved Old Growth Logging in Elk River. revised

Now that Pacific Lumber has their new Waste Discharge Permits they can go ahead and log in Freshwater and Elk River. They are more limited in the quantity of logging but will still be logging Old Growth Redwoods in these areas. Since the company is restricted to log a lower amount of acres than before they will probably cut the most profitable trees (the big ones) in any given logging plan and leave the smaller stands for some future date. Clearcutting will probably be the logging method of choice in these watersheds due to the lack of incentive for PL to selectivly log.

Pacific Lumber wanted to start operations on the plans with priority levels 0 and 1 on May 9th. Priority 2 THPs by May 22nd and priority 3 THPs by June 7th or within 10 days of plan approval.

A look at three of the approved NF Elk logging plans;

Turkey Foot- Priority Level 0
#00-259 East of the North Fork Elk Marbled Murrelet Conservation Area. Contains some residual Old Growth Redwoods. Was “grandfathered” in which means it was approved before a certain date.

Turkeyback Thin- Priority Level 3
#01-004 Adjacent to North Fork Elk MMCA. May contain residual Old Growth Redwoods.

Below15 Thin- Priority Level 1
#02-005 North of Elkheart Complex covering relatively large area of residual Old Growth Redwoods

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