Save the Breitenbush Watershed from Lawless Post-Fire Logging!

Currently, the Willamette National Forest is planning to clearcut century-old forest in the Breitenbush watershed. The logging is planned on public forestland impacted by the 2020 wildfires directly across the street from the Breitenbush Hot Springs Retreat Center and along the salmon-bearing Breitenbush river, proposed as a Wild & Scenic River.

Since the 2020 fires, the watershed has already been significantly impacted by post-fire logging, much of it executed by the Willamette Forest Service. Now the Forest Services is planning to post-fire clearcut in more century-old forest. They advanced these plans with no public announcement and with no analysis that considers the significant ecological consequences of clearcutting in a fire impacted watershed.

Conservation organizations have filed a lawsuit to oppose the imminent logging, and the hearing is scheduled for December 3, 2021! Shockingly, the Willamette Forest Service may still cut the trees before the judge can decide on the case.

On November 16, 2021, dozens of community members risked arrest to protest post-fire logging planned by Willamette National Forest in the century-old Breitenbush watershed forest. Organizers blockaded one of the roads leading into forests imminently threatened with clearcutting and are occupying the area.

Tell the Willamette Forest Service to halt this lawless logging and give the Breitenbush watershed its day in court!

Call:
Detroit Ranger Station: (503) 854-3366

Email:
David Warnack, Forest Supervisor, David.warnack@usda.gov
Sean Rivera, Detroit District Ranger, r6_willamette_wwweb_frontdesk@fs.fed.us

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