The 'A to Z' Experiment: The Hills are Alive with the Sound of Chainsaws...

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Wed, 04/22/2015 - 10:00am to 10:15am
Earth Day Interviews with Steve Horn and Barry Rosenberg


Barry Rosenberg , The e-mail address for comments for the North Fork Mill Creek A to Z Project is:
nfmc_public@fishsciences.net


The A to Z Plan - Read this; Pay Attention or there won't be any more trees left to Sit is...
 
   The draft EA for the North Fork A to Z Project on the Colville NF in
eastern WA is out. I realize that you are all busy and that you don't have
time to comment on the timber sale , BUT perhaps you will find time to
oppose the Forest Service's experiment-handing over virtually all management and implementation of the timber sale to a profit driven timber corporation, in this case, Vaagen Brothers Lumber Company. The Forest Service is left only with the making of the decision.
 
        Since the Forest Service has been paid a million dollars for the
contract in which Vaagen will do all the work associated with the sale,
perhaps the FS will actually make a profit. This aspect needs to be further
investigated. If that is the case, what a motivator for the agency!
 
        We need to get ahead of the curve on this issue, if not I am pretty
sure that it will spread to other Forests and other timber sales. You know
what to do, write your legislators, the Chief of the Forest Service, letters
to the editor, op ed pieces, news releases, a letter to the Colville
National Forest, etc. It also might be a good idea to encourage your friends
in the FS to contact FSEEE and ask them to get involved. I have talked with
Andy Stahl about this sale-but he's on the fence. Let's make the public aware
that profit driven timber corporations will gain an inordinate amount of
control of their forests.
 
        You realize that we are among the few in the country who are aware
that this is happening! It also a great poster child for what's wrong with
collaboration process-just turn the management of the timber sale program
over to profit driven timber corporations.
       
        Like Dr. John the Night Tripper said in his song "Right Time, Wrong
Place," "It's actually happening." Some of the groups involved in this
collaborative, the Northeast Washington Forest Coalition, are The Lands
Council, Kettle Range Conservation Group and Conservation Northwest, along
with Vaagen Brothers Lumber Co..
 
        It just so happens it is a nightmare of a timber sale. Not only is
Vaggen Brothers going to log and road the project area into submission, but
the sale calls for creating more grazing habitat for those with range
permits. I've attached a summary of the Proposed Alt., Alt B. In response to
public comments, the agency created Alt C which supposedly has no road
construction and less then half the proposed volume of Alt B.
 
        Vaagen paid a million bucks for the contract not only to log the
North Fork, but the next sale will be the Middle and South Fork Mill Creek,
a major sale, is also part of the deal. It's outrageous! Of course there
will be not cumulative effects. 

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