Urgent - Calls Needed to Stop Biscuit Roadless Logging

To: All Activists

From: American Lands Alliance

Date: March 30, 2005



Urgent - Calls Needed to Stop Biscuit Roadless Logging



Roadless logging in the Siskiyou Wild Rivers Area of Southwestern
Oregon is becoming even more imminent. The Siskiyou National Forest
may auction the Mike's Gulch timber sale, located within the South
Kalmiopsis Roadless Area, within weeks.



The Mike's Gulch timber sale is the first roadless sale to be
unleashed in the Biscuit Logging Project. It will virtually clearcut
335 contiguous acres of roadless forest in the South Kalmiopsis
Roadless Area located near the spectacular Kalmiopsis Wilderness.
This area also contains old growth forest reserves that are supposed
to be protected from logging for sensitive species.



The 2002 Biscuit Fire in the Siskiyou Wild Rivers Area in Southern
Oregon was a natural event that affected the untrammeled,
biologically rich Siskiyou Wild Rivers landscape that centers around
the 179,000-acre Kalmiopsis Wilderness in the southwestern corner of
Oregon. The roadless wildlands around the Kalmiopsis Wilderness
include the South and North Kalmiopsis Inventoried Roadless Areas.
At 104,620 acres and 88,852 acres, they are the first and third
largest unprotected roadless forests in Oregon. This large roadless
landscape is the watershed for three National Wild & Scenic Rivers
and five candidate Wild & Scenic Rivers, containing some of the most
valuable wild salmon & steelhead habitat from the Olympics to Baja.



Calls are needed TODAY to Oregon Governor Ted Kulongoski, urging him
to take action to protect roadless Siskiyou forests.



Call Governor Kulongoski at (503) 378-4582, and tell him that you
care about the Siskiyou Wild Rivers Area, that this is a special
place of national significance, and urge him to publicly oppose the
logging of roadless forests in the Siskiyou and demand that the
Forest Service NOT auction roadless logging sales like the Mike's
Gulch timber sale.

For a factsheet from the Siskiyou Project on roadless area threats in
the Siskiyou Wild Rivers Area, go to:
<http://www.siskiyou.org/swrc/timbersales/Mikes_Gulch_roadless_area.cfm>http://www.siskiyou.org/swrc/timbersales/Mikes_Gulch_roadless_area.cfm

For photos of the North and South Kalmiopsis Roadless Areas, Mike's
Gulch timber sale area, and photos of recent logging, go to:
<http://www.americanlands.org/activistResources.php?subsection=Photo%20Library&cat=1102008134>http://www.americanlands.org/activistResources.php?subsection=Photo%20Library&cat=1102008134



For more details go to:

http://www.siskiyou.org
http://www.kswild.org
http://www.o2collective.org


_________________________________________________________________

American Lands Alliance http://americanlands.org

http://lists.americanlands.org/lists/info/americanlands-list