Open Letter to Potential Ned’s Bar Bidders You receive this letter with the intention of conveying to your financial sensibilities the low profit margin and immense amount of negative local and national attention that cutting the scenic forests above the Little Applegate community will bring to your company. Many of the residents of the rural Little Applegate valley find themselves here with a direct interest in interaction with the beautiful public lands that surround their homes. With a harvest perscrcription that suggests leaving only 6 to 24 trees per acre, property values, water quality and soil stability are brought into question. It is at this time that we advise to you that we (collectively) have lawyers on retainer who have been paid to bring suit to the Ned’s Bar timber sales. Spotted Owl and Siskiyou salamander are known to inhabit the stands that are intended for logging. The presence of these alone promise to bring private survey manage teams onto public lands. These teams will preform a more thorough investigation into the presence and health of these rare and endangered species than we believe have occurred to date. As a neighborhood, the Little Applegate has taught minds of many generations the value and practices of preservation, food production and sustainable forestry and systems dating back to the 1970’s. Many who were introduced to these ideas feel a close and direct personal bond with the Little Applegate forests. In fact, highly organized activists have given promise to bring trained and efficient environmental defense to the forests that shaped their understanding of, and love for this earth. I will leave it to you to dream the creativity with which these forests will be defended. Lastly, but certainly not least, a film crew from Los Angeles has already begun a full length documentary film whose central focus is the happenings of private logging on public lands, including how and why the public pays to build roads for private timber extraction. With a full operational budget and a huge network of highly competent liaisons, this film has much promise and potential. It is to titled “The Paper Trail.” The people of the Little Applegate stand to gain nothing from these sales. The jobs that will be provided fund people from different towns, and even different counties. Ned’s Bar is a timber sale performed for financial gain. We can promise you that Ned’s Bar is a losing choice from the point of ease and high profit margins without lawsuit or activist interest. With the health of American forests and farms in mind, we ask you to please reconsider.
Posted on: Mon, 03 Nov 2014 15:33:04 +0000
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