Crater Lake is Oregon's only National Park (photo by Justin Lee)
Just to the North of Crater Lake -- Diamond Lake & Mt. Bailey inventoried Roadless Area
Just to the North of Crater lake -- Diamond Lake & the Mt. Thielsen Wilderness
Habitat for flashy birds like this Western Tanager (photo by Francis Eatherington)
Just to the North of Crater Lake -- The Oregon Cascades Recreation Area (photo by Francis Eatherington)
Just to the North of Crater Lake -- Projects designed by the Umpqua National Forest like the Jigsaw Timber Sale
Just to the North of Crater Lake -- Projects designed by the Umpqua National Forest like the Jigsaw Timber Sale (photo by Doug Heiken)
Justification for the D-Bug timber sale -- addressing the "pine beetle epidemic" shown here (photo 10.08)
Justification for the D-Bug Timber Sale -- addressing the "pine beetle epidemic" shown here (photo 10.08)
Justification for the D-Bug Timber Sale -- protecting the "wildland urban interface" shown here.
Dead Trees have benefits to pileated woodpeckers.
Dead trees are beneficial to osprey
Dead trees are anything but
By it's own admission - D-Bug would destroy 30% of the best Pine Marten habitat in the Umpqua (photo by ODFW)
The D-Bug Timber Sale logs in spotted owl habitat. We saw a pair in one of the logging units (photo by ODFW)
Not-so charismatic wildlife would be effected
The Mt. Bailey Roadless Area is home to intact, native forests
We saw lots of beautiful wildlife in the area. Not just owls, snakes, and birds.
Lake Creek, in units 242 & 223 of the D-Bug Timber Sale
Like the Metolius, this river comes out of nowhere. The aquifer that supplies it could be at risk from soil compaction and road building.
On this trail, we saw a spotted owl. This, and miles of other hiking & skiing trails would be converted to logging roads in D-Bug.
Some of the roads will be "temporary roads". This is what a temporary road looks like after decommissioning.
Roads cause erosion. This is an illegal OHV road in the Mt. Bailey Roadless Area.
D-Bug unit 126 in the Oregon Cascades Recreation Area. Slated for commercial logging (photo by Francis Eatherington)
D-Bug unit 126 in the Oregon Cascades Recreation Area. Slated for commercial logging
This road forms the boundary of the Thirsty Creek Roadless Area. One side has already been heavily thinned (85%).
A look into the Thirsty Creek Roadless Area. It would be commercially logged by D-Bug to provide a "4th redundant fuel break"
This tree is in a commercial logging unit within the Mt. Bailey Roadless area. (photo by Doug Heiken)
Though far from human structures in a roadless area, the Forest Service thinks this mature lodgepole stand should be part of a regeneration harvest
Though we found trees over 150 years old here, the Forest Service told us any trees here over 80 years old are "dead and just don't know it." (photo by F. Eatherington)
Prescribed burns here were canceled because there is so little fuel a fire wouldn't even take (photo by F. Eatherington)
Here's what happens when you thin mature lodgepole. Doesn't look like a fuel reduction to me.
This is one of the few areas actually near human structures and where thinning would be appropriate. So, which tree would you cut to reduce fuel? The Fores Service says -- cut the big one. (photo by Doug Heiken)
This tree was cut in the Charlene Timber Sale nearby D-Bug.
This project was justified by leaving patches of forest uncut. Those leave units are now part of the D-Bug project.
This prescription is similar to many used in the D-Bug Project
This is the Jigsaw Timber Sale planned by the Umpqua National Forest and carried out by Roseburg Forest Products. (photo by F. Eatherington)
After being cut by Roseburg Forest Products, the Forest Service set a fire to "reduce fuels". It killed every "leave tree"
I am standing next to a 5 foot Shasta Red Fir cut in the Jigsaw Timber Sale put together by the same people who bring you D-Bug. (Photo by F. Eatherington)
A "regeneration harvest" (photo by Doug Heiken)
This 85" "leave tree" was the subject of an article in Backpacker Magazine. The same folks in charge of D-Bug burned it down after the nearby trees were logged.
Old Doug Firs like this are in areas to be commercially logged by the D-Bug timber sale.
This used to be an old growth forest. It was cut with no environmental analysis by the same folks who are planning the D-Bug Timber Sale (F. Eatherington)
