Biscuit Logging Project:
ancient, old-growth forests destroyed,roadless wildlands threatened

ACTION ALERT (March 14, 2005): Logging of Old-Growth Ancient Forest Reserves Begins in Siskiyous
50 citizens, including 75 year old-year Joan Norman pictured at left, have been arrested in the past week during peaceful, non-violent civil disobedience in Siskiyou Wild Rivers Area. TAKE ACTION! Calls/Emails/Donations are needed from around the country! As Joan stated as she was being arrested, "We have no laws protecting our forests so we will be the law."

News Release Jan. 27, 2005: Forest Service Rushing Ahead to Log Old Growth Reserves at Fiddler Mountain

• Click here to send a free fax to save Fiddler Mountain and ancient forest reserves

A hard Look at the Biscuit "Fire Recovery Project" (pdf)
The Forest Service, logging industry and some politicians are using buzz-words such as forest restoration, fuel reduction and community protection to justify a "recovery" plan that's actually one of the largest logging projects in U.S. history. Learn more in this newspaper primer.

Photo Tours of Biscuit Fire Area
Numerous photo tours of the area including: ancient forest logging at the Horse and Flattop timber sales and the rivers, forests, flora and fauna of the Siskiyou Wild Rivers area.

Video Clip: Salmon Jumping Little Falls on the Wild and Scenic Illinois River
This jumping salmon video clip was taken on October 19, 2004 at Little Falls on the National Wild and Scenic Illinois River. 90% of all acres proposed for logging are within the watershed of the Wild and Scenic Illinois River.

Video Clip: The Orville Camp Story
Meet Selma, Oregon logger and conservationist Orville Camp in this 30 second TV ad and learn why this Illiois Valley man is one of many locals who thinks the Forest Service's Biscuit Logging Plan makes no sense.

Biscuit's Fiddler Timber Sale Threatens Tourism Along The Redwood Highway
This paper by an Illinois Valley tourism expert explains how extensive logging of ancient forest reserves along the TJ Howell Botanical Drive threatens a tourism resource of national significance along Hwy 199.

• Click here for more info on the TJ Howell Botanical Drive, the premiere botanical drive for visitors to see what many say is the most botanically diverse region in the nation. Biscuit's Fiddler Timber Sale, which could be logged any day, would cut down enough trees from along this botanical drive to fill 2,900 logs trucks.

The photos below show ancient forests recently cut down as part of the Biscuit Logging Plan or ancient forests threatened with imment logging. As you can see, cutting down huge, legacy trees in the backcountry is clearly not restoration or community protection. In total, the Biscuit "Fire Recovery Plan" calls for logging of 370 million board feet of trees from a forest of global ecological significance, including 19,000 acres of ancient forest reserves or inventoried roadless areas. That's enough trees to fill 74,000 log trucks lined up for over 600 miles, making this the largest logging projects in the 100-year history of the Forest Service.

A citizen monitor measures this 18 1/2 foot circumference tree marked to be cut at Biscuit's Fiddler timber sale. Photo by Lisa Shelton.		This 5 1/2 feet diameter tree is marked to be cut at Biscuit's Berry timber sale. Photo by Lisa Shelton.
A citizen monitor walks through logging slash and stumps at Biscuit's Horse timber sale. Photo by Lisa Shelton.		Logging slash and stumps at Biscuit's Horse timber sale. Photo by Lisa Shelton.
Stump field at Biscuit's Horse timber sale. Photo by Lisa Shelton.		Over 6 feet diameter tree cut at Biscuit's Horse timber sale. Photo by Lisa Shelton.
Logging at Biscuit's Horse timber sale. Photo by KS Wild.		A citizen monitor walks through a sea of stumps left at Biscuit's Indi timber sale. Photo by KS Wild.
Clearcut ancient forests at Biscuit's Indi timber sale. Photo by KS Wild.		This 7 foott diameter tree is slated to be logged at Biscuit's Indi timber sale. Photo by Lisa Shelton.
"Hazard" tree logging at Biscuit. Photo by Rolf Skar.		Log deck of "Hazard" trees at Biscuit. Photo by Rolf Skar.
Logged hillside within Biscuit's Flattop timber sale. Photo by Lisa Shelton.		Stand of legacy trees to be cut down during Biscuit's Berry timber sale. Photo by Lisa Shelton.
Yet another 7 foot diameter tree to be cut down during Biscuit's Berry timber sale. Photo by Lisa Shelton.		Illinois Valley tourism expert Roger Brandt explains the unique biological features caused by the Siskiyou's serpentine soils from a vista along the TJ Howell Botancial Drive. Photo by Matthew Koehler.
Massive sugarpine marked to be cut down during the Biscuit timber sales. Photo by Rolf Skar.		A citizen monitor exams damage from Biscuit's Berry timber sale from atop huge stump. Photo by Lisa Shelton.
90% of all acres proposed for logging as part of the Biscuit "Fire Recovery Plan" are within the watershed of the Wild and Scenic Illinois River. Photo by Rolf Skar.		Charred Moonscape? While referred to repeatedly as catastophic, devasting and unnatural, the reality is that 84% of the Biscuit fire area was either unburned or burned at low to moderate intensity.