The proposed sale could mean logging over 800 acres of forest, focusing on second growth trees that regrew after logging decades ago. Environmental groups are opposed sale as planned, saying the amount of possible clear cutting would be bad for habitat.
A stand of young growth timber that is for sale near Thomas Bay. The stand has regrown from logging in the 1950s and 60s.
The proposed sale includes smaller plots within the original logged areas. LaPrice says there could be one sale for all of the 800 acres or several smaller sales over a number of years. Either way, it would likely involve clear cutting.“We would have provisions to retain, for example, a buffer along a stream so it would keep the stream shaded,” LaPrice said.
“Right when things are beginning to re-grow, that’s the really critical time to monitor that things may be coming back the way we want them too,” he said.Several environmental groups, like Center for Biological Diversity, Defenders of Wildlife, and the Southeast Alaska Conservation Council, are opposed to the Thomas Bay sale as planned. The sticking point for them is the size of the possible clear cutting, which they say is bad for habitat.
One reason for the timber sale is to restore the area from the old logging. Although most of the sale money would go to the U.S. Treasury, some would go to restoration work in the area, including improving old culverts. “There’s always this backlog of things that need to happen,” said Rooks. “Creating more need for that to happen seems problematic.”
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