The Six Rivers National Forest is back with another logging proposal in the Eel River Late-Successional Reserve (LSR), and this time it wants to skip full public review. The Bucktail Vegetation Management Project covers a 14,400-acre planning area on the Mad River Ranger District, south of Dinsmore between Highway 36 and Van Duzen Road, next to the Mount Lassic Wilderness. These older forests are also in designated Critical Habitat for northern spotted owls

Tannery Gulch Campground could look very different by fall. Last week, EPIC joined Forest Service staff; members of the Trinity County Collaborative; Trinity RCD; and about a dozen concerned campers, including a camp host with her two children, who's worked there for 15 years; and campers who've been coming for more than 50 years and have spent every summer of their lives here with their whole family. At one point, standing near one of the marked trees, the camp host told the Forest Service they

The Forest Service has released an Environmental Assessment proposing large-scale commercial logging and mechanical treatment across 12,805 acres of the Shasta-Trinity National Forest in Northern Trinity County. The project runs along the Highway 3 corridor between Trinity Lake and the Trinity Alps Wilderness, a low-elevation forest that is some of the most wildlife-rich public land in Northern California. Public comments are due Friday, June 5.