The Goose Project, a 2,134-acre logging operation approved by the Forest Service, will yield 38 million board feet of lumber.
The Goose Project, a 2,134-acre logging operation approved by the Forest Service, will yield 38 million board feet of lumber.
A couple of conservation groups, Oregon Wild and Cascadia Wildlands, knew about the project, which the Forest Service had approved in 2010. The groups had appealed the sale, arguing that the agency failed to adequately describe how it would protect the 956 acres of spotted owl habitat in the area. The appeal was denied, the project approved, the 45-day window for public comment closed.
Which means neighbors have no recourse for weighing in on a substantial logging operation that is literally in their backyards. No recourse to file an appeal or a lawsuit, because they didn’t comment on it in the first place. They can only watch and wait, for the buzz of chainsaw and the whir of helicopters to arrive and start plucking trees out of the forest, one by one.
Read more at the Eugene Register-Guard.
