The U.S. Forest Service has determined that some 27 million board feet of timber will be logged in the controversial Bybee project in the Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest.
A record of decision for the project in the High Cascades Ranger District a dozen miles north of Prospect was announced Monday by forest supervisor Rob MacWhorter.
He described it as a modified version of a proposed alternative released in January which had called for up to 45 million board feet of timber to be harvested from the 16,215-acre area.
“We considered the public comments received, scheduled field trips to take a critical look at the project, and made some modifications that strike a balance between improving forest health and resiliency and providing an economically viable vegetation treatment,” MacWhorter said in a prepared statement.
A legal notice in the Mail Tribune will launch a 45-day administrative appeal period. To file an appeal, appellants must have made substantive comments earlier to the Forest Service regarding the project.
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