The U.S. Forest Service has a decision open here and is taking comments on it. Umpqua National Forest, Oregon.
The agency files it as “Southwest Tiller Fuel Break Project”
Closes todaycloses October 28
Places to check
1
People it would take
6
Said they’ll go
0
Photographs filed
0
Opened
October 3
Window closes
October 28
Evidence
Nothing filed yet.
No photograph has been filed on this mission yet. The first one lands here with its fingerprint, where its location came from, and how far inside the agency’s own boundary it was taken. The places to check are below.
The objective
What we are testing.
Umpqua National ForestOld growth
“Within LSR, plantation thinning prescriptions will focus on low residual density, uneven spacing, leaving trees with large limbs, broken tops, etc. for wildlife.”
The agency wrote that in its own document, under Late Successional Reserve (LSR). Nobody has been out to check it.
Walk into the thinning units marked as plantations inside the Late Successional Reserve areas near Tiller and photograph the trees: trunk size, canopy, big old snags and downed logs. Photos of wide old trunks, layered canopy and large snags in a unit called a plantation would show the stand is not a young planted block.
Open. Anything filed before October 28 goes into the comment file the agency has to answer. After that it backs the formal objections, goes to the lawyers on the fight, and is the story.