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May 26, 2004
Taking the Allegheny Defense Tour
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Today, members of the Allegheny Defense Project led a tour of the Allegheny National Forest for members of the media. The tour featured clearcutting, "thinning" cutting, and "shelterwood" cutting implemented under the East Side project currently under appeal before the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals. In addition, we toured examples of "Allegheny Hardwood", aka black cherry, forests and Eastern Hemlock-Northern Hardwood Forests where we were greeted by this Red Eft.
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From there we visited a forest area that had been sprayed with herbicide as demonstrated by these two photos. They are taken from the same place - one looking left into forest, one looking right into herbicide area.
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Ah, but that is not all. From there we proceeded onwards to the Thad Shanty Windthrow Salvage - part of the massive 6,000 acre logging project being implemented with the use of the Bush Administration's "Healthy Forests".... excuse me, Healthy Stumps Initiative.
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After a day of destruction and pending destruction we finished with a visit to the proposed Bogus Rocks Scenic Area. This proposed Scenic Area is part of our Allegheny Wild! Citizens' Proposal for the Allegheny National Forest. All there is to say is wow!
Posted by jkleissler at May 26, 2004 06:48 PM
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