Thursday, May 31, 2012

California environmentalists say logging a burned forest near Tahoe threatens rare woodpecker

Rare woodpecker chicks in burned forest stands at Lake Tahoe won’t survive if the U.S. Forest Service proceeds with a contentious post-fire logging project, according to conservationists pressing the agency to postpone cutting around the trees until after the nesting season in August. The John Muir Project is asking for the delay while awaiting a ruling on an appeal to the 9th U.S. Circuit aimed at blocking what’s left of the salvage logging operation where the Angora Fire five years ago burned more than 3,000 acres and 254 homes on the edge of South Lake Tahoe. Chad Hanson, the group’s executive director, documented black-backed woodpecker chicks this week in at least one nest in the cavity of a standing dead tree at the project site and suspects there are more...more

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

The rare pecker woods are the california environmentalists!

W.V. McConnell said...

The battle over the management of public land continues as environmental activists seek to protect woodpecker chicks by delaying salvage logging on the El Dorado National Forest. For a look at the array of other considerations (economic, social, environmental) that the lawsuit does not consider and other pertinent aspects of this classic controversy, take a look at this webpage. http://www.wvmcconnell.net/?page_id=545