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***UPDATE! March 2013*** The Forest Service has resurrected the Jazz Timber Sale with no substantive change to the project. Bark's successful administrative appeal of the Jazz Timber Sale resulted in a withdrawal of the sale in December of 2012 and although we anticipated the agency would likely revive the project, we are surprised to see so little change in the revised proposal to address the ecological concerns that caused the original project to be cancelled. In March of 2013 the Forest Service reissued a revised Environmental Assessment (EA) and decision notice on the Jazz Timber Sale, initiating a new appeal period for the project. We plan to appeal this latest decision on Jazz and oppose the project as it moves forward, in an effort to hold the Forest Service accountable to environmental laws and to protect the Collawash Watershed from 2,000 acres of logging. For the full update, read the article 'Defeated Jazz Timber Sale returns -- Zombie Jazz' linked below.*** The Jazz Timber Sale would log 2,000 acres of forest, throughout 30 square miles of the Collawash River watershed. The Collawash is a tributary to the Clackamas River and is host to the last wild late run of winter coho salmon, making it key spot for the survival of this species. The Collawash is also considered the most geologically unstable area in all of Mt. Hood National Forest, having experienced 7 landslides in a single year alone. Logging loosens soil and increases sediment runoff into streams and rivers, and Bark is concerned these impacts would be magnified on this unstable landscape, and would negatively impact water health and salmon habitat. The Jazz Timber Sale is being billed as restoration, yet would allocate time and money to re-build 12 miles of old roads that have been either actively decommissioned or are naturally reincorporating into the landscape, and would construct 0.4 miles of new road. Additionally, the large size and vast span of Jazz makes it very difficult for the public, let alone the Forest Service, to accurately gauge the environmental effects. Nonetheless, Bark groundtruthers have spent more than 600 hours to survey all proposed Jazz units. Bark successfully stopped the Jazz Timber Sale On December 7, 2012, when we received notice that the Forest Service had withdrawn its decision to approve the Jazz Timber Sale. The Forest Service issued a Decision Notice and Environmental Assessment for the original Jazz Timber Sale on September 7th, 2012. Bark filed an administrative appeal of the decision on Friday, October 19th, challenging the re-opening of 12 miles of previously decommissioned roads for the Jazz Timber Sale and the pre-decisional road work done in anticipation of the Final Decision. We were thrilled to learn that our two-year effort to groundtruth, comment on, organize around, and appeal the Jazz Timber Sale resulted in successfully protecting 2,000 acres in the most geologically unstable watershed in Mt. Hood National Forest. Now, with Zombie Jazz back on the Forest Service docket we are preparing to file another administrative appeal.
 
General Info
  • District: Clackamas
  • Total Acres: 2000
  • Watershed: Collawash
  • Basic Location: The large planning area starts about 5 miles south of the Ripplebrook Ranger Station and extends south to Bagby Hot Springs mostly along FSR 63 and 70.
  • Driving Directions: From Estacada take Highway 224 to the Ripplebrook Ranger Station. Just past Ripplebrook Turn south on FSR 46. In about 5 miles take FSR 63 continuing south. The northern units are off of 6310, with many other units south of here along FSR 70 and 63.
  • Legal Description: T. 6S., R. 6E. T. 7S., R. 5E. T. 7S., R. 6E T 7S., R. 7E. T 8S., R. 7E
Prescriptions
  • Total Commercial Thin Acres: 2000
Roads
  • Reconstruction Miles: 12 miles
  • Temporary Miles: .3 miles
Updated 3/22/11
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