Threatened & Endangered: Little Applegate Valley

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* Include as many specific, documentable concerns as possible and avoid emotional generalizations. This may involve studying maps and documents of the proposed project, asking questions, and viewing for yourself the area that the BLM would like to cut.

* Refrain from making charges against the BLM unless you are positive they are true. A comment such as, "The BLM uses faulty equipment in their surveys" should be stated, " The BLM’s findings are inconsistent with those made by such-and-such scientist."

* Try to be balanced. Include positive comments that establish a rapport.

* Remember that the person reading the letter deserves the same respect that we are asking from the BLM regarding our watershed.

Questions to Ask the BLM

It is important to establish communication with the BLM by asking them questions to generate a reply. Some questions to ask the BLM involve both the proposed timber sales and also their assessments of past timber sales.

Regarding the Buncom Sale:

- How many acres were logged and what was the total volume harvested?

- How many forested acres remain unaltered?

- How many acres received other treatments?

- Has BLM completed any monitoring and analysis of the project components?

Regarding the Bobar, Bald Lick and Prince Beaver sales:

- What activities are being planned for the areas, on how many acres?

- What is the schedule of progress on the projects (including scoping, Environmental Assessment process, finding of no significant impact (FONSI) sign-off, estimated sale date)?

-What preliminary work is already in progress or has been completed?

What we want in the Little Applegate:

- An analysis of how landscape-type timber sales (like Buncom) differ from more traditional sales (like Lick Gulch).

- A comprehensive EIS instead of a brief EA.

- Intensive management activities confined to previously entered stands in the roaded landscape.

- No logging or other intensive management activities for 10-20 years in the following roadless areas: —Dakubetede (North & South), Little Lick Gulch, Buncom, Crump, Bald Mt.

- Timber harvests limited to roaded areas using alternative full-suspension ground systems (no helicopters!) for minimal disturbance of the soil and of the peace of rural life.

- Trees to be cut only below an upper diameter limit of the stand’s average diameter.

- Eliminate the PSQ (potential sale quantity) from all BLM lands in the Applegate AMA (Adaptive Management Area).

The Little Applegate    Dakubetede Wilderness    Roadless Areas

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