Stop commercial logging in Oregon old-growth reserve forests
Lost Horse DNA
Bureau of Land Management· Lost Horse project area, Late-Successional Reserves (LSR)BLM NEPA Register DOI-BLM-ORWA-C040-2026-0003-DNA ↗
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BLM plans four commercial timber sales in forests set aside to grow into old-growth habitat.
What’s at risk
Late-Successional Reserves and Riparian Reserves in the Lost Horse project area face commercial thinning of 30-to-80-year-old Douglas-fir stands. These areas are specifically managed to develop old-growth characteristics and protect aquatic habitat, and logging would set back that recovery.
If this goes through
Four commercial timber sales would remove trees from protected reserve lands, permanently delaying the development of old-growth forest structure and the wildlife habitat that depends on it.
Our plain-English read of the official notice ↗. Check it against the agency’s own words below.
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What the public could have raised, from the agency’s own document
- I oppose this action as proposed, and I ask the agency to weigh the specific harms below.
- I oppose commercial thinning in the Lost Horse project area's Late-Successional Reserves, which are supposed to be managed to develop old-growth characteristics, not logged for timber sales.
- The four commercial thinning sales proposed by the Myrtlewood Field Office would cut into Riparian Reserves designed to protect aquatic habitats in Oregon's Douglas-fir forests.
- These stands are only 30 to 80 years old and still maturing, and wildlife that depends on developing forest structure will be harmed if BLM moves forward with commercial timber harvest now.
- I urge BLM to reject all four commercial thinning sales and honor the conservation purpose of Late-Successional and Riparian Reserves in the Lost Horse project area.
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- Say something only you can say. The law requires the agency to consider and respond to substantive comments, and specifics are what make a comment substantive.
In the agency’s own words
The BLM proposes to conduct four separate commercial thinning timber sales in 30–80-year-old age-class Douglas-fir-dominated stands following the same proposed actions and project design features described in Alternative 2 of the Late-Successional [Reserve] (LSR) and Riparian Reserve (RR) Restoration Management (Programmatic) Environmental Assessment
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