In 2016, the BLM ditched the Northwest Forest Plan and adopted a logging-centric "Resource Management Plan" in which the BLM ordered itself to log 17,000-acres in the Late Successional Reserves every decade. This timber target is not based on any ecological need or fire resiliency objective. It exists solely to encourage logging of old-growth forest reserves to produce timber volume.
The new "Cedar Flat" timber sale targets 2,588-acres of forests located the Late Successional Reserves and Riparian Reserves near the community of Williams for logging yarding and timber hauling activities.
There is an opportunity for the BLM to get this right.
Please take a moment to join us in asking BLM timber planners to do the right thing for our public lands.