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Ancient Forest Issues

The Survival Center's Forest Action group works with the Oregon Natural Resources Council, Native Forest Council, Cascadia Fire Ecology Education Project, and Southern Willamette Earth First! We offer free interpretive ancient forest hikes to sites slated to be cut such as Fall Creek, North Winberry, East Devil, Slap, Silver-Sturgis, Peak, Little River, Blodget in the Umpqua, etc. so people can better understand the true nature of how the Forest Service is "managing" our public forests, i.e. turning them into monoculture tree farms and destroying the incredible biodiversity and ecological complexity that has evolved over millions of years and supports life on earth. Our forests are spiraling farther downward into biological meltdown as the "salvage rider" signed by Clinton in July '95 is implemented to help our forests recover from a supposed "forest health crisis." We take a variety of approaches to stop this self-destruction from appealing proposed timber sales to civil disobedience to letter writing campaigns, whatever the situation calls for. We receive mail from most ranger districts in Oregon, a very valuable resource for investigating how the agencies are "managing" your lands.

Active Resistance to Industrial Forestry

  • Cascadia Forest Defenders
  • CFD's '95/'96Publication: Cascadia Rising
  • Inspiring photosfrom Cascadia Free-State: Almost 1 year blocking the road saves Warner Creek from clearcutting!
  • Witness Against Lawless Logging Network

    • Information

  • Anpo (aka KUHN KUNI): Timber Sales on Native Sacred Ceremonial Site
  • Information & Analysis on The "Salvage" Rider
  • Fire Ecology, Fire Suppression, & The Warner Creek Salvage Sale
  • The Sugarloaf Timber Sale (Cut Fall '95) & Boise-Cascade Boycott
  • Roman Dunn & other coastal old-growth timber sales (Already Cut)

  • The Western Ancient Forest Campaign's Report From WashingtonÝ

    • Forest Protection Groups

  • Umpqua Watersheds
  • Native Forest Council
  • Vancouver Temperate Rainforest Action Coalition
  • Sierra Club
  • Rainforest Action Network