January 27, 2005
Biscuit Fire Old Growth Reserves Face Imminent Logging
The Forest Service is rushing to log thousands of acres of old-growth reserves affected by the Biscuit fire before a court can determine if the logging is illegal. Logging may start any day in these special places! In addition, old-growth legacy trees are falling at the Briggs Cedar timber sale on Squaw Mountain in the wild Siskiyou.
A court ordered injunction that prevented logging in seven timber sales has been lifted. As a result, sensitive old-growth reserves are now imminently threatened by the Fiddler, Steed, Berry, Wafer, Hobson, Lazy, and Briggs Six logging sales. The Forest Service is trying to saw through these sales before a court case on the legality of the logging can be heard by a judge on March 22nd. If logging proceeds, it could be completed before the court decides whether the logging is legal or not.
The Forest Service is plowing the snow-covered roads to these logging sales in their rush to log old-growth reserves.
Call the Siskiyou Project for up-to-the minute opportunities to help: (541) 592-4459 or (503) 222-6101.
Don?t let the Forest Service get away with this outrageous, unfair behavior.
Please take action today to protect our old-growth forest reserves.
Call Oregon Senator Ron Wyden, Oregon Governor Ted Kulongoski and Congressman Peter DeFazio.*
Tell them to:
1. Publicly ask the Forest Service NOT to log old-growth reserves in the Siskiyou until the scheduled court case can be heard.
2. Create a Siskiyou Wild Rivers National Conservation Area to protect and restore this special part of Oregon for future generations.
Senator Ron Wyden
700 NE Multnomah St. Suite 450 Portland, OR 97232
Portland: (503) 326-7525
Washington DC:(202) 224-5244
Oregon Governor Ted Kulongoski
Phone: (503) 378-4582
160 State Capitol, 900 Court Street
Salem, Oregon 97301-4707
Congressman Peter DeFazio
151 West 7th, Suite 400 Eugene, OR 97401
Phone: (541) 465-6732
or toll-free in Oregon: 1-800-944-9603
Washington DC: (202) 225-6416
*If you live outside of Oregon, you can contact your members of Congress by calling the capitol switchboard and asking for your Represenative and Senators:
Capitol switchboard: (202) 224-3121.
