Conservation groups call for protection, not logging, of 20,000 acres of forestland near Sisters
Wild Ecosystems Alliance and the Blue Mountains Biodiversity Project are calling for citizens who care about federal lands in Central Oregon to the Rally for Green Ridge Friday, June 28 at the Deschutes National Forest Sisters Ranger District office in Sisters, to protest the Deschutes National Forest’s Record of Decision for the planned Green Ridge Landscape Restoration Project. The project’s goal is to “maintain and restore forest conditions closer to the historic range of variability and contribute to the restoration of ecosystem process and function in the planning area,” which would allow for logging an estimated 5.25 million board feet of lumber from Green Ridge…
