Action Alert: Last Day to Submit Public Comment on Ragged Ruby Timber Sale!!

from Blue Mountains Biodiversity Project Please help us stop extensive logging of large trees and old growth forest, and destruction of watershed integrity and habitat for marten, Threatened Steelhead and Bull trout, Sensitive Columbia Spotted frogs, and more…. Karen with old growth fir tree in the Ragged Ruby timber sale Located in the Malheur National Forest, about 9 miles North of Prairie City, OR lie the Ragged Ruby timber sale. ​Despite past heavy logging in parts of the this “project area,” the area still contains magnificent creeks with critical habitat species such as Threatened Steelhead and Bull trout. This beautiful area also provides high quality habitat for Sensitive Columbia Spotted frog and Long-toed salamander, and critical riparian corridor and high elevation habitat for American marten. The latter is a weasel species ranked as vulnerable in Oregon and especially vulnerable in the Malheur Forest. The vast majority of the so-called “upland restoration activities” planned in Ragged Ruby consist of extensive heavy commercial logging that impairs ecological resiliency and threatens the viability of numerous wildlife species in the area, including Pileated woodpecker, Sensitive Western-ridged and California floater mussels, and possible rare Pacific lamprey. As the Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) admits in its summary, Ragged Ruby Project watershed, fisheries, and wildlife habitat […]