Earth First! Humboldt

All of these Timber Harvest Plans can be downloaded and viewed here at CDF’s THP library.

1-09-090

GD “K&K 600 Road THP”

40 Acres

North Fork Mad River

Newly filed, Under Review

This plan entails road building and logging the “Right of Way”. There are no units. As Green Diamond puts it, “This THP is only for the construction of new roads and the reconstruction and reopening of existing roads.” The purpose for this is to open the area to log trucks for future clear-cutting.

Section 4 of the THP indicates that GD plans to log nearly 2,000 acres in this area in the next 8 years. 1,741.7 acres of this would be clear-cutting. The future logging units are outlined below in pink.

They propose 4.5 miles of new road construction which includes clear-cutting 75 ft. wide swaths of forest. They call for an additional  8.2 miles of road reconstruction and reopening which allows them to log roughly 25 ft. from the roadsides.

The forest in this area is roughly 50 years old, much of it was logged by Green Diamond when they were previously known as Simpson.The past logging operations (1950-60s) left numerous shoddy bridges, Humboldt crossings and culverts that are now failing.

Green Diamond will likely try and justify the road work from an ecology standpoint by saying that they are trying to prevent more sediment from entering the stream by fixing their road, but 1,741.7 acres of new clear-cuts is unjustifiable.

Read more about this plan on the Voices of Humboldt County website.

1-09-093

GD “Roddi-Snow Camp THP”

114 acres

Snow Camp Road, Maple Creek, Mad River

Newly filed, Under Review

• Clear-cutting 102.5 acres
• Selection            2
• Road                  1
• No cut               8.5

This logging plan is right across the road from Sierra Pacific’s “Rerun THP” which proposes massive clear-cutting and will only add to the damage if the plans are implemented. Click on image to expand.

1-09-061

Sierra Pacific Industries “Rerun THP”

343 acres

Maple Creek, Mad River

Recirculated for Public Comment- Open for comment now.

• Clear-cutting        156 acres
• Rehab (clear-cut)  133
• Selection                 26
• Alteranative            18
• Road                       10

From Untitled Album

This logging plan contains an undisclosed amount of mature Douglas Fir stands over 100 years old that were not cut in previous logging operations. Units are scattered from Snow Camp road (on the ridge) down to the riparian zone of Maple Creek.

1-09-094

GD “CR 1640″

100 acres

Big Lagoon/Trinidad area

Newly filed, Under Review

• Clear-cutting 56 acres
• Selection        26 acres
• Road                1
• No cut           17

This plan proposes the clear-cutting of two 80 year old groves amongst a patchwork of historically recent clear-cuts.

GD plans to log around 5,366 acres in this area in the next 8 years. 4,416 acres of this is projected to be clear-cut. Click on image to expand view. The yellow polygons show the location of “CR 1640″. The dark gray shapes are future logging units.

From Untitled Album

From Untitled Album

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