Defend The Wild!
Most of the information we put out has to do with forests on private corporate land, but this one is too big to skip. The U. S. Forest Service has hit a new low with their plans to "salvage" log in the sensitive Biscuit fire affected area in Oregon's Siskiyou Wild Rivers area in the largest logging project in the history of the Forest Service. How big? As proposed, anywhere from 518 million board feet to over a billion board feet of timber on 60,000 acres, including 20,000 acres of old growth reserves. The response is growing in like kind.
The grassroots response is well-organized, community-based and multi-organizational. Greenpeace is helping set up a large base camp in southern Oregon, Information can be found at www.kswild.org (Klamath Siskiyou Wildlands Center),
www.biscuitfire.com, www.greenpeaceusa.org, www.cascadiarising.org and
www.siskiyou.org (Siskiyou Project)
