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Ponderosa Poster Child

 

U. S. Forest Service Misrepresenting the Historic Condition of Western Forests and the Effects of Fire Suppression and Logging

This report is currently available as a pdf file (548k).

 

Our one-page poster, "Text, Lies and Photographs" summarizes Forest Service misrepresentations of the Bitterroot's historic ponderosa pine forests and is available as a pdf file (96k pdf).

High resolution images of pertinent Forest Service photos can be viewed or downloaded below:


Lick Creek Poster (820k high res version): "USFS Poster: 88 Years of Change in Ponderosa Pine Forest."


Lick Creek Photo #1 (424k high res version): Historic Lick Creek forest conditions, shown in 1909, "immediately before partial cutting."


Lick Creek Photo #2 (492k high res version): "Cleanup operations on the Lick Creek timber sale" falsely presented "as the baseline reference of forest stand conditions that evolved from regularly occurring, low-intensity surface burning." (From the 1983 USFS General Technical Report INT-158 and the April 13, 2000 "Protecting People and Sustaining Resources in Fire-Adapted Ecosystems - A Cohesive Strategy: The Forest Service Response to the General Accounting Office Report GAO/RCED-99-65," respectively).


Lick Creek Photo #3 (328k high res version): The 1997 results of recent Lick Creek "ecosystem management treatments" intended to return the forest to fictitious historic conditions.

 

Photos by US Forest Service.