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‘The Forest Service
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the last remaining
habitat of the red
tree voles .’
–Straw Devil tree-sitter
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8-3-03
1885 Hwy 99 North
Eugene • 688-1090
10 JULY 31, 2003
Confrontation marks logging of old growth.
S
parks flew in more ways than one
when felling began at the Straw
Devil timber sale just off Highway
58 southeast of McCredie Hot Springs the
morning of July 23. Contention over the old-
growth sale, brewing since 1999, came to a
head when loggers, tree-sitters, activists and
Forest Service staff convened upon Unit 1 of
the sale.
Amidst the sounds of saws and falling
trees at the site were shouts from above of
“Fire the Forest Service, the perpetrators of
destruction in the National Forest,” “This for-
est works as one big ecosystem — people
should come out here and help try and stop
them [(loggers)]” and “The Forest Service
decided that this old-growth needed to be cut
down for a few bucks. It’s the last remaining
habitat of the red tree voles.”
Straw Devil’s trees were sold to Engel
Investments in 1999; however, the USFS did
no extensive survey of wildlife habitat at the
129-acre sale. Public pressure, a court case
and a judge’s ruling forced the agency to re-
fine their Survey and Manage strategy,
which, under Clinton’s Northwest Forest
Plan, requires the USFS to ensure that certain
species’ habitats will not be destroyed.
The red tree vole, a 5-inch long rodent that
is a primary food for the northern spotted
owl, nests high in old-growth Douglas firs.
Post-ruling USFS surveys yielded no sight-
ings of vole nests at Straw Devil. Subsequent
citizens’ surveys, organized by the Cascadia
Wildlands Project (CWP), found many which
were confirmed by the USFS, and 72 of the
129 acres were buffered from logging.
But advocates at the CWP and Cascadia
Forest Defenders (CFD), several of whose
members are currently tree-sitting at Straw
Devil, say this is not enough. Reed Wilson, a
tree-sitter supporter from Corvallis, says that
the USFS “waited so long to come verify
them (the nests) that the voles moved their
habitat,” and that “Unit 1 is a very reliable
habitat for voles,” thus making its sanctioned
Darin J. Ward DDS PC
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