Unit 28-22B was originally proposed for heavy regeneration logging. The Nedsbar Community Monitoring Project and KFA identified the unit as one of the most intact, fire-adapted stands in the Little Applegate foothills. As the community learned about this egregious timber sale unit, they responded with dismay and many attended a public hike led in January. The good news is that the BLM recently dropped commercial logging proposals in the unit. Having this unit dropped from the sale is a major victory towards protecting the Little Applegate Valley from the Nedsbar Timber Sale, however, more still needs to be done. Many more units need to be canceled to protect old, late-seral forests, wildlife habitat, and roadless areas. The BLM recently released a new Nedsbar Timber Sale map depicting the BLM’s “preferred alternative” for their Environmental Analysis (EA), Alternative 4. Alternative 4 is the most timber heavy alternative that will be reviewed in EA. It...

Local residents hiking the proposed new road into the Dakubetede Roadless Area through beautiful white oak woodland. The Klamath Forest Alliance and Siskiyou Crest Blog led a public hike into units 26-20 and 27-20 of the Nedsbar Timber Sale today. Twenty-five residents from the Rogue and Applegate Valleys attended the hike into the Dakubetede Roadless Area, following the route of a proposed new road the BLM intends to build to facilitate logging in the Nedsbar Timber Sale.  We began by hiking a decommissioned road to two units in the previously logged O’Lickety Timber Sale, units 57 and 54. These two units were drastically over-cut, which downgraded dispersal habitat for the northern spotted owl to habitat that is no longer suitable for any of the owl’s habitat needs.  Community members discussing the negative outcome of the recent O’Lickety Timber Sale. The group then hiked the proposed new road through oak woodland in the...

Unit 25-23 in the Nedsbar Timber Sale Presentation Nedsbar Timber Sale March 19, 2015 6:30pm Applegate Community Grange 3901 Upper Applegate Road The Nedsbar Timber Sale is a large proposed timber sale on BLM lands in the Little Applegate and Upper Applegate Valleys. The timber sale would include building new roads and logging large, old trees that will likely increase fire hazards adjacent to our homes and communities. Please come to this free presentation and learn about what is happening on the BLM lands in your backyard and what you can do about it. The presentation will include a history of what has led to this timber sale and where the logging units are in relation to homes and properties within the valley. Beautiful photos of the Nedsbar Timber Sale units, views of the units from the valley floor, and photos of the greater region will be shown in a Powerpoint presentation.  Speakers will present information about the impacts of the BLM’s...

Unit 27-20 in the Nedsbar Timber Sale, the destination of the upcoming public hike sponsored by Klamath Forest Alliance and the Siskiyou Crest Blog. The Klamath Forest Alliance and the Siskiyou Crest Blog will be organizing public hikes into the Nedsbar Timber Sale this spring. We plan to lead one hike per month into wild forests proposed for logging in the Nedsbar Timber Sale.  The first hike will be on February 28, 2015. We will be meeting at 10:00AM at the intersection of Yale Creek Road and Little Applegate Road, near the long row of mailboxes.  The hike will explore a wild portion of the Dakubetede Roadless Area; we will follow the route of a proposed new road the BLM intends to construct in lower Lick Gulch to facilitate logging in the Nedsbar Timber Sale. The proposed road winds through beautiful oak woodland across currently unroaded slopes to the ridgeline dividing Lick Gulch from the Little Applegate River.  The proposed road would...

Nedsbar Community Monitoring Program volunteers in unit 28-10A on the western face of Bald Mountain. This unit, and numerous other proposed logging units in the Nedsbar Timber Sale that support old, fire-resilient forests, would be dropped in the Community Alternative. Throughout the last few months, the Siskiyou Crest Blog, Klamath Forest Alliance, and local Applegate Valley non-profits and community organizations have organized the Nedsbar Community Monitoring Program (NCMP). The goal of this effort was to walk and evaluate all 93 units in the proposed Nedsbar Timber Sale, to not only educate the public, but also to inform the proposed Community Alternative to the Nedsbar Timber Sale. The Community Alternative has been developed by a committed group of local Applegate Valley residents —known as the Community Alternative Working Group—to address what many in the community see as the timber sale’s numerous design flaws and unbalanced prescriptions. The Community...