Malheur National ForestRoads
“Under alternatives 1 and 3, more than 720,000 acres would retain protections similar to those provided by the Roadless Rule.”
The agency wrote that in its own document, under Substantive Issue 5: Inventoried Roadless Areas. Nobody has been out to check it.
Go to the Glacier Mountain roadless area on the Malheur National Forest and walk or drive in from the boundary, looking for drivable roads, old landings, or fresh tire tracks inside it. A photo of a drivable road, landing, or vehicle tracks clearly inside the area boundary, or open country with no road where one is claimed.
Umatilla National ForestOld growth
The agency has published no document here with a sentence a photograph could settle, only a notice. The line below is read from that notice.
Walk into the oldest stand you know on the Umatilla and photograph it before the plan is signed: the biggest trunks with a pack or person beside them for scale, standing dead snags, and the canopy overhead. Date every shot.
Wallowa National ForestOld growth
The agency has published no document here with a sentence a photograph could settle, only a notice. The line below is read from that notice.
On the Wallowa National Forest, walk into the big old stands you already know and photograph the largest trees with a pack or person beside them for scale, plus standing dead snags and how much canopy closes overhead.
Whitman National ForestOld growth
The agency has published no document here with a sentence a photograph could settle, only a notice. The line below is read from that notice.
On the Whitman forest, walk into the biggest standing timber you know and photograph the large old trees with a pack or person beside a trunk for scale, plus dead standing snags and the view straight up at the canopy.