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I'm Olivia Schmidt, and I'm the community organizer for BARC. BARC is the Defender's and Mount Hood National Forest.
We've been defending and restoring Mount Hood for 11 years, and we're out here today looking at the jazz timber sale,
which is a project proposed by the Forest Service to log 2,000 acres in the Kalawash watershed.
The timber sale itself, this 2,000 acres, is actually cut up into little pieces spread over 30 square miles
that covers the entire Kalawash watershed, which is a sub-watershed of the Clackamas River watershed
that provides drinking water to Clackamas County communities.
The jazz timber sale would require 12 miles of previously decommissioned roads to be reopened
so that logging trucks can get into this part of the forest and cut the trees and get them out.
Roads in general have a big impact on the forest, they impact water quality, they disrupt habitat.
One of the bigger issues I think with this particular situation is that 12 miles of these roads have already been taken out.
So the money and the human resources has already been spent to rip up or block these roads that go into the forest.
So the fact that they're going to come back in and reopen 12 miles of those roads,
not only is it going to be expensive, but it's going to undo this work that's been done in the past that has improved the area.
Like any government agency, the Forest Service needs to have public oversight so that we can make sure that they're basically following their own rules
and to make sure that what's actually happening in the forest is being reflected in their analysis of this area
and of the impacts that would occur because of logging.
What BARC has done for the last 11 years is gather volunteers to take them out to the forest
and do something called ground truthing, which is basically civilian surveys
where we're looking at the documents being produced by the Forest Service talking about what's happening on the ground
and what we're doing is we're basically going in and sort of fact checking the statements by the Forest Service.
So we've spent the last 11 years getting people out to the forest to survey or ground truth these timber sales
and that's a really important aspect of decisions made about our public lands.
And it brings up other questions like the Forest Service is required to go and do field surveys and cover every inch of that land
but for some sales the comet period or the time that that analysis is happening, those sales will be under snow.
Like right now some of the jazz timber sale is under snow so we aren't able to get in there
and really meaningfully look at what's happening on the ground.
You start adding up all of those impacts and you realize that the jazz timber sale as one piece of a larger puzzle
is going to have a devastating impact to this area of the forest
and by extension the wildlife habitat, the water quality
and just the innate value and importance of beautiful healthy forest.
Hi there, my name is Grady Proctor and I'm the Forest Watch Coordinator for BARC
and today we're here at the jazz timber sale
and in just a minute we're going to walk in and see some of the sale itself
but here we are, we're standing on a road right near Unit 2
and what we have here, this is called a berm
so what they have done is to prevent traffic from going down there
is to rip the surface of the road a little bit
and what they've created right here is basically just a giant hill
and then on the opposite side of that is quite a big ditch
so basically they're just trying to stop traffic from venturing further down this way
unfortunately we do get a lot of ATVs and our all-terrain vehicles
and motorcross bikes and such
and this becomes more of like an obstacle course for them
the jazz sale is about 100 units
but I thought we'd go into this one here today
to see more about what the jazz sale looks like
so here we are, we are in presently Unit 2 of the jazz timber sale
and this is kind of what a lot of the units look like in the jazz sale
there are 50 to 60 year old trees in general
this particular sale is what they call restoration fin
in Forest Service Speak that basically means that
these trees are going to be used in the jazz sale
and they are going to be used in the jazz sale
and they are going to be used in the jazz sale
and they are going to be used in the jazz sale
and it means that these trees after they were clear cut logs
they were planted 50 to 60 years ago
are recovering
but what they are saying is that because it's a plantation
it's of a lesser status
and that it's not as diverse as a natural stand
so what they would like to do is basically log their way out of it
but as we look around in this forest today
we can see that beside us here is a downed log
and as these old trees fall and hit the ground
younger trees and other plants can take advantage of that
because as this log decomposes
it holds so much moisture
it basically is just like a bed of compost
and it helps plants like these hemlock trees
be up off the base of the floor and away from competition
and into a nutrient bed with a lot of moisture
just to give them an upstart
so downed logs are vital for the forest ecosystems
the other thing we have here is this is a snag
and snag basically means standing dead tree
and snags provide a ridiculous amount of habitat
it's something like a third of all birds will use snags for homes
and about the same amount for mammals as well
so when they log these areas
we lose a lot of these downed logs
and we lose a lot of these snags
and both of these are vital for animal habitat
most species that are threatened or endangered
are so because they don't have a home
they don't have a place to live
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and mitigate a lot of this slumping that we're seeing right now.
And I know we've been having problems because we've been working with a program called Legacy Roads
to get money from Congress to basically close these roads.
And I think it's going to be really hard to convince Congress to give us money to close roads
that are causing a lot of ecological harm
if they know that the Forest Service's intent is just to come back and reopen these roads
any time they want to get back in a foggy area.
So, we're going to be going to the Forest Service's
to get money from Congress to close roads that are causing a lot of ecological harm.
And I think it's going to be really hard to convince Congress to close roads that are causing a lot of ecological harm.
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