Jazz Timber Sale: 2014
Channel: Bark for Mt. Hood
Date: 2015-12-03

Bark's Staff Attorney Brenna Bell walks down a length of an old road that was built over 40 years ago, but has since been reclaimed into the landscape. The Forest Service wants to rebuild this road in order to log Unit 18 of the Jazz Timber Sale. This is just one small piece of 11 miles of roads that the Forest Service will rebuild in order to log Jazz. 

Road construction is known for its detrimental impacts to watershed health, yet the majority of these 11 miles have either recovered naturally, or the Forest Service has already invested resources into actively decommissioning them as part of watershed restoration efforts. Undoing this restoration work makes no sense for the Collawash River Watershed and its threatened salmon habitat.

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Credit: Trip Jennings/Balance Media

Video created on 4/10/2014 in Mt. Hood National Forest, Oregon.