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Thursday, July 14, 2022
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USFS pays $115K to settle Big fi re risk up in parts of West
salvage logging lawsuit
By MATEUSZ PERKOWSKI
Capital Press
SALEM — The U.S. Forest
Service has agreed to curtail logging
and pay environmental advocates
$115,000 to settle a lawsuit over post-
fi re timber salvage in Oregon.
In 2020, massive wildfi res burned
1 million acres of forestland in the
state, including 176,000 acres in the
Willamette National Forest.
The flames swept through two
previously approved forest projects,
prompting the Forest Service to adjust
those plans to include post-fi re salvage
logging.
The Lang Dam and Highway 46
projects initially focused on commer-
cially thinning roughly 2,600 acres to
reduce tree density and were not chal-
lenged in federal court.
However, the Cascadia Wildlands
and Oregon Wild nonprofi ts brought
legal action against the revised plans,
alleging they should have undergone
additional environmental analysis.
Last year, U.S. District Judge Ann
Aiken ruled in favor of the environ-
mental plaintiff s and issued a prelimi-
nary injunction that blocked the Forest
Service from conducting post-fi re
salvage logging.
However, that injunction was not
permanent and the litigation was
allowed to proceed.
The environmental plaintiff s have
now struck a settlement deal under
which the agency has agreed not
to move forward with many of the
planned timber sale units. Other units
were modifi ed to reduce their size
or to ensure they retain at least 60%
canopy cover.
“Generally, the vast majority of
post-fi re clear-cutting got dropped,”
said Nick Cady, attorney for Cascadia
Wildlands.
Thinning operations that were
planned before the fi res can mostly
move forward, though some older
forest stands will not be logged, he
said.
Post-fi re logging is particularly
damaging to the environment because
it aggravates the erosion of vulnerable
soils in burned stands, Cady said.
The agency seized on the oppor-
tunity to fulfi ll timber sale contracts
by cutting the damaged trees, he said.
The nearby Breitenbush commu-
nity was closely involved in develop-
ing the original pre-fi re projects but
wasn’t allowed to off er input on the
revised salvage plans, he said.
“We caught the Forest Service kind
of red-handed,” he said. “This was
the Forest Service trying to cut that
community completely out.”
The Forest Service has also agreed
to pay $115,000 in litigation costs and
to provide the environmental plaintiff s
with monthly updates and at least one
fi eld trip to inspect the operations.
The settlement agreement has “no
precedential value” and cannot be
cited by the environmental groups as
case law in other litigation.
By BRAD CARLSON
Capital Press
SALEM — The risk of large
wildfi res remains above normal this
month in parts of Oregon, Washing-
ton and California, according to the
National Interagency Fire Center’s
Predictive Services unit.
“For at least the next two months,
we have above-normal signifi cant
fi re potential along and east of the
Cascades, much of northern Cali-
fornia and central California, north-
west Nevada and southwest Idaho,”
said Nick Nauslar, a meteorologist
at the Fire Center in Boise.
He said forecasters remain
concerned about long-term drought
and fi ne-fuel loading. An unusually
wet spring in spots plumped grasses
and shrubs, increasing available fi re
fuel.
“We are worried about fine-
fuel loading in northwest Nevada,
Eastern Oregon, southwest Idaho
and even into the Columbia Basin,”
Nauslar said.
In forested areas from central
California into the Oregon
Cascades, forecasters remain
concerned about long-term drought,
he said. These areas now appear
likely to see drought persist and
possibly worsen.
The July-October report
said climate outlooks indicate
below-normal precipitation is likely
across much of the Plains through
the central Rocky Mountains and
into the Inland Pacifi c Northwest.
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The likelihood of wildfi res in 2022 will increase in some parts of the
West, according to a new forecast.
Above-normal temperatures are
likely across much of the contigu-
ous U.S.
Drought continues across 75% of
the West and much of the central and
southern Plains, the Fire Center said.
Extreme to exceptional drought
continues over much of California,
eastern Oregon and the Great Basin.
Drought improved or ceased across
much of the Northwest, Idaho and
Montana, though it intensifi ed in a
part of north-central Montana.
Large-fi re potential is above-nor-
mal in July in central and southeast
Oregon and in parts of central and
southeast Washington, the report
said.
The above-normal risk of large
fi res broadens in August, and in
September is expected to spread to
west-central Oregon.
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