The "Beaver Creek" Timber Sale (TS) includes almost 1,000 acres and would remove 5.9 million board feet of trees, or more than 1,100 logging truckloads. The logging sale includes more than 500 acres of northern spotted owl critical habitat and would use strychnine poisoning to kill gophers, although it would undoubtedly kill much more.
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Together, the Beaver TS and Uptown TS would contribute to serious problems, with coho and chinook salmon and steelhead all struggling to survive in the streams flowing through the area and the Klamath River itself. These waters are already choked with sediment and well over threshold levels of concern.
The Forest Service did not analyze the combined impacts of these two logging plans on fish or wildlife, committing this and numerous other violations in approving the Beaver TS. EPIC is challenging this timber sale, working with the same team of activists and attorneys as the Knob TS. Many of the same violations are occurring in both sales.
Every ancient tree standing in this area is precious and is invaluable to the plants and animals that rely on clean water and healthy forests. EPIC is determined to ensure that these trees do not fall before their time, but instead survive to help bring vanishing species back from the brink of extinction.