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WOPR FEIS Fact Sheet
Details from the final version of the WOPR.
- 400% increase in timber harvest compared to current logging levels.
- Allowable Sale Quantity (ASQ) of 502 million board feet = 100,400 log trucks per year, or 1 million log trucks over a decade.
- 27% of the remaining old growth would be clearcut over the next 100 years.
- Protection for rivers and streams would be slashed in half compared to the existing plan.
- Over the next 100 years, the plan will result in 180 million tons more carbon in the atmosphere compared to a "no harvest" alternative. This is equivalent to the greenhouse gas emissions from 1 million cars driven for 132 years.
- 70% of overall harvest would come from clear-cut logging. The BLM describes this practice as a "regeneration harvest" with "zero green tree retention." Old-growth scheduled for logging would be clear-cut in this fashion.
- The 27% loss of old growth forest, represents 96,200 acres.
- 74,600 acres of stands over 80 years-old will be clearcut in the first decade
- The plan will result in almost 1300 miles of new roads.
