On October 14, 2004, a federal judge blocked a logging plan slated for the Klamath National Forest, chiding the Forest Service for its faulty review of the environmental damage that would result. The Beaver Creek timber sale totaled over 1,000 acres and threatened some of the last remaining ancient trees in this upper Klamath River tributary.
The timber sale aimed to remove almost 6 million board feet, or more than 1,100 truckloads of trees. It also included nearly 500 acres of designated critical habitat for the northern spotted owl and would use strychnine poisoning to kill gophers, although it would undoubtedly kill much more.
EPIC was represented in this case by Marianne Duggan.
