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Pull The Plug On D-Bug

The proposed D-Bug hazard reduction timber sale in the Umpqua National Forest near Crater Lake National Park in Oregon includes more destructive and wasteful logging in roadless areas than occurred across the entire country during the Bush Administration.

Crater Lake edited March 18, 2010

Welcome to Crater Lake, Oregon's only National Park. To the North is the Umpqua National Forest, home to Mt. Thielsen, Mt. Bailey, Diamond Lake, and the Oregon Cascades Recreation Area. It's also home to one of the worst roadless timber sales in the country!

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November 10, 2010: Umpqua National Forest continues to insist on tying common sense thinning to reckless backcountry logging in the DBug Timber Sale. In a final attempt to come to a constructive solution, Oregon Wild challenges the decision. Click here to learn more.

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As originally proposed, the D-Bug timber sale was a destructive and wasteful project that would have:

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Included more commercial logging in inventoried roadless areas than occurred across the entire country during the entire Bush administration
Destroyed 30% of the best pine marten habitat in the Umpqua National Forest (also home to spotted owls, fishers, and maybe even wolverines)
Turned miles of hiking and skiing trails in the Oregon Cascades Recreation Area into logging roads
Included commercial logging and road-building in the Crater Lake & Mt. Bailey Wilderness proposals and thousands of acres of uninventoried roadless areas
Contradicted one of the most popular conservation measures in history - the 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule.
Come at taxpayer expense.

The Roadless Rule provides common sense exceptions for public health, safety, and access. A tiny part of this project does in fact protect human habitation, and is not objectionable. Sadly the Forest Service has chosen controversy and confrontation over collaboration and common sense. Tell Forest Service Supervisor Clifford Dils and his boss, Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack, to pull the plug on D-Bug!

Oregon wild is working to scale back this massively misguided project and hold the new administration to its promise to reinstate, defend, and uphold the 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule. In response to public backlash and national attention, the project has been scaled back but still violates the Roadless Rule and remains unnecessarily destructive, wasteful, and controversial.