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Beaver Creek Timber Sale

February 2003
The Beaver Creek Timber Sale on the Scott River Ranger District, Klamath National Forest proposes to log 5.9 MMBF on 975 acres within the Beaver Creek watershed, a tributary to the mid/upper Klamath River. The timber sale contains a variety of logging prescriptions, including GTR clearcutting, group selection, commercial thinning, overstory removal, and sanitation. Some temp road construction, some reconstruction, some decommissioning. the Beaver Creek watershed has been hammered in the past, and is "checkerboard" with a lot of private industrial timberlands interspersed with FS lands. High road densities, some granitic soils. Chinook, steelhead, and coho present in the mainstem and some tribsutaries. The logging would occur within subwatersheds that have been identified as over CWE thresholds, which the sale will exacerbate. The sale will log some of the last mature and old-growth fragments left in the watershed. Click here to download a copy of the appeal.