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Say NO to the Cottonwood timber sale
  1. Signatures
    179 out of 200
    Petitioning
    1. Ashland Field Manager (+ 3 others)
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      • Ashland Field Manager (John Gerritsma)
      • Dayne Barron
      • The Bureau of Land Management
      • Mr. Gerritsma
  2. Created By
    Caleb Laieski
    Phoenix, AZ
About this Petition Petition Letter Petition Updates

"The Jenny Creek Watershed has perhaps the greatest biodiversity of any area in the state of Oregon." Jenny Creek Watershed Assessment and Analysis, Medford District BLM, at 4.

Earlier this year we asked you to stand up for the incredibly biologically diverse forests of the Jenny Creek watershed by sending an email to the Medford BLM asking them to protect the remaining intact forests in the Jenny Creek Key Watershed. Sometimes the government needs to hear from you more than once to get the message, so please take a moment to remind the BLM that you value the forests and waters of Jenny Creek for their outstanding ecological values.

While Jenny Creek's unique importance for biodiversity and water quality is widely recognized, timber planners in the BLM remain intent on punching more logging roads into the heart of this watershed to conduct "group selection" logging of backcountry native forest stands.

The Environmental Assessment for the "Cottonwood" timber sale calls for construction of a new 1.5 mile permanent logging road to facilitate logging backcountry forest stands that serve as Nesting Roosting and Foraging habitat for the Northern spotted owl and that were recognized as "critical" by the US Fish and Wildlife Service in 1992. The proposed road construction would involve old-growth logging, a meadow crossing, and construction through a riparian reserve.

Please take a moment to send the BLM an email saying that you are still aware of their plans for Jenny Creek and that its time that they listen to the public and protect the outstanding forest and watershed values of Jenny Creek.

Photo & Action Credit: KS Wild

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Concerned about Cottonwood timber sale

Dear Official

I value the world-class biodiversity and hydrological values of the Jenny Creek watershed and I remain very concerned about the BLM's proposed Cottonwood timber sale.

The BLM's intent to construct a 1.5 mile logging road through meadows, riparian reserves and old-growth forests in order to log backcountry late-seral stands in the Jenny Creek Watershed is a bad idea. Please listen to your neighbors and avoid new road construction in this designated "key watershed" as advised in the Northwest Forest Plan.

In my opinion this is not the right place for logging large trees, building new logging roads, or unleashing tractors throughout the forest.

Rather than logging mature forest stands in the backcountry that provide so many terrestrial, hydrologic and recreational forest values, please consider thinning previously established fiber plantations in the wildland urban interface.

Thank you for considering my values and my concerns.

[Your name]

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