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Environmental group does Chequamegon Forest Flyover/Forest Service defends logging
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Story posted Friday at 10:49 a.m. 8/22/2008 |
Environmentalists took to the air over Ashland to make their case that the Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest is endangered forests from over-logging. Vanessa Feltes flew along.
From the sky to the ground, the Environmental Law and Policy Center and the Habitat Education Center explore the Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest. On Wednesday, they used both airplanes and boot leather to ride above and walk through the forest. They say the forest is one of the top ten most endangered national forests.
The ELPC have been on a mission to protect the forest from what they call excessive logging.
“Too much, too often, too many wrong places”
The Chequamegon-Nicolet Forest covers about 1.5 million acres in northern Wisconsin.
Habitat Education Center’s Resource Ecologist Dave Zaber has had many experiences by plane and on foot exploring the forest. That’s given him the first hand knowledge of how bad things really are.
“I let the woods, the damage, and the ground do the talking.”
Zaber says it isn’t only logging disrupting the forest, but it’s also trails, roads, and dust.
Chequamegon-Nicolet Forest Supervisor Jeanne Higgins says the U.S. Forest Service understands the concerns, but says the logging that is done in the National Forest is intended to meet the objectives in their forest plan.
“Our forest plan is set up to provide habitat for wildlife species, essential forest products for the communities to contribute to social and economic well-being.”
“There’s essentially a different of opinion between whether or not our plan and the objective that we have set up in our plan are consistent with meeting the habitat objectives for various species and that includes both plant and animal species, but again our biologists believe our practices are very consistent with meeting those objectives.”
Even so, the environmental groups say they’ll continue their fight for limited logging in national forests.
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