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Date: Sunday, December 21 @ 11:55:29
Topic Environment

Atlanta judge shuts down logging operation in ONF
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
AUSTIN GELDER

Atlanta U.S. District Judge Orinda Evans (Jimmy Carter appointee) shut down contentious logging operations in the Ouachita National Forest this week, idling chain saws at least until the U.S. Forest Service proves the timber harvests in question will have no significant environmental impact.

The Atlanta judge issued a temporary restraining order Thursday halting all logging and road building on 10,000 acres of national forest land in Arkansas until a Jan. 5 hearing where the Forest Service will have a chance to show it followed proper procedures in authorizing timber sales.

"The Sierra Club considers this a huge victory for the people of Arkansas," said Bryan Bird, (Florida based)legal coordinator for the nonprofit environmental group heading up the legal challenge.

This battle over Ouachita timber began in May when a handful of environmental groups teamed up and filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, Atlanta division, to stop 27 timber sales across the southeast. The groups contended the sales would violate the National Forest Management Act’s prohibition of logging on public lands that exceeds a forest’s ability to replenish itself.

The Arkansas land scheduled for logging is home to a number of sensitive species including the scarlet tananger, the pileated woodpecker, and four fish species that could become en- dangered if their habitat is lost to the timber industry, said David Reagan, a spokesman for the Ouachita Watch League.

"If we lose the forest then we’re going to lose the species, because the species live in those forests," he said.

The Sierra Club and the Hot Springs-based Ouachita Watch League went back to the court this fall to ask for a restraining order after they discovered loggers were already cutting on some of the Arkansas plots included in the pending lawsuit.

In the past, the Forest Service usually delayed logging until court cases were settled, Bird said.

Atlanta U.S. District Judge Orinda Evans (Jimmy Carter appointee) divided the May lawsuit into four cases and sent legal claims regarding logging projects on public land in Texas, Virginia and Mississippi back to district courts in their own states.

She held onto the Arkansas case "to determine whether defendants abused their discretion in allowing these projects to proceed," according to the temporary restraining order.

The areas scheduled for logging in the Ouachita National Forest include the Kingdoodle, Kinsey and Logan Side ecosystem management units; the Middle North Fork of the Ouachita River project; and the north and south Gafford Creek Watershed projects.

The 1.6 million-acre Ouachita National Forest is mostly within Arkansas’ borders, with 255,471 acres in Oklahoma.

Spokesmen for the U.S. Forest Service in both Hot Springs and Washington, D.C., declined to comment Friday. The agency does not comment on pending legal action, they said.

Jim Crouch, director of the Ouachita Timber Purchasers Group, said the temporary restraining order poses a minor inconvenience for timber companies. Crouch represents companies that buy and process timber from Arkansas national forests.

"But if [Judge Evans] moves on through Jan. 5 and makes a decision at that time, the inconvenience will be minimal," he said.

Crouch said timber companies did nothing wrong by harvesting while litigation was still pending.

"If you bought a new car several months ago you’d want to be driving it," he said.

He said he was also glad to see that the judge is asking for a $10,000 corporate surety bond from the plaintiffs. Plaintiffs in lawsuits that would stop economic activities are often asked to post bonds.

"You’ve got to take some responsibility. You can’t just run out and file a lawsuit," he said.

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SIERRA CLUB CONTACTS to FREEP!

David Reagan
Ouachita Watch League
P. O. Box 1521
Hot Springs, Arkansas 71902
(501) 623-8425
email David Reagan at: dreagan@direclynx.net

Bryan Bird is the Appeals and Litigation Coordinator
Sierra Club National Forest Campaign
Mr. Bryan Bird, Executive Director
Forest Conservation Council
P.O. Box 276268
Boca Raton, Florida 33427
(561) 347-0949
email Bryan Bird at: bmbird@worldnet.att.net

Sierra Club National Forest Campaign
Conservation Organizer
116 W. Spring
Fayetteville, Ar 72701
Fax 479-571-3316
Work 479-571-3005


By preventing the 1999 ice storm damage from being cleaned in the Ouachita Forests, The Sierra Club is intent on seeing Arkansas BURN as brightly as did California.

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[Grampa Dave]

This is great! I'm sure that you remember every wonderful moment of this classic exchange.

Upon reaching me, he immediately started to criticize the job, "Trees like that should be left for wildlife" he said, pointing to broken off fir snag, "they are important for cavity nesting species." "Like what?" I asked, "Furbearers like fishers and martins." I played along, "Really? Fishers nest in trees like that?" "Yes" he replied, "I didn't know that! That's just great!" I said. "Why is that great? he asked suspiciously.

"Well that tree is right next to a paved road and is less then 100' from the busiest trailhead to the Marble Mountain Wilderness. I'm glad that fishers have adapted to these conditions, now we don't have to set aside 5,000 acres for each one."

'This was not the conclusion he wanted to hear. The Ranger was delighted, the newspaper man was amused. The rest of the day went pretty much like that exchange.


The reason these light in the brain enviralists have succeeded is they mouth their mantras to the mediots and they are publicized as the Gospel with no real intellectual interchange.

These clowns have no chance if they are put into a one on one with some like you or Mark. Which is why they try to avoid these situations.

[BOBTHENAILER]

The self-proclaimed biologists methods are crude and inefficient compared to the hands-on experience of third and fourth generation loggers, ranchers and miners.

Absolutely beautiful rant & roll, hammering away at the despicable econazis.

[SierraWasp]

"Just when I was second guessing myself for posting that rant, you guys give me an atta boy."

Don'tchew be gittin no second thoughts!!! You not only rant it best... you act on it in appropriate ways with members of the media and govermint agents present!!!

Those of us that actually have stepped up to the plate in this bizarre battle with these militant control freaks share a common bond with you forester! We know you aren't willing to "quit-claim" our forests to these freakle people and if your life story could be known... it would help turn the rising socialist tide in the forestland and free both the people and the wildlife.

I know this is what Carry_Okie has mapped out in his writings and the truth could make us all free, if people had the courage to face it. Keep on keepin on, dude!!!

[talleyman]

Bump!

[BOBTHENAILER]

After that, our local savior of the earth avoided me like the plague.

Great story...keep on rantin'.

[American in Israel]

Ah, those days are over... But If I am ever back to it I will freep ya for a few beers and a few nuggets.

It actualy is a wives tale that gold moves much. It moved once real well during Noahs flood, but not much since then. Just try dredging in the same spot you dredged before. Nadda, zip-city. You will know the instant you dredge beyond your old area, cause you are back in paydirt.

Look at canyons as if they were just sluice riffles, find a good bearing one and then in a topo find another canyon with the same angle to Noahs flow. You will find more often than not another great bearing canyon.

Once made a living with my paydirt, not an easy thing to do if you don't know what you are doing.

The Noah's flood thing is my biggest secret, made me a lot of money. Everyone knows a good bearing stream, the NF thing finds the stream they don't know, based on the stream they do. Enjoy!

[forester]

Thanks for the encouragement guys.

[FlyVet]

Oh now you just leave these Sierra Club people alone. You know they don't live in houses made of wood. You know they don't have wooden furniture in their stone houses. You know they don't drive cars with evil internal combustion engines. You know they don't eat food. You know they don't wear clothes. They don't do anything that causes environmental damage.

Come to your senses. Leave them alone.

[BOBTHENAILER]

yer welcome mah FRiend. Keep up the great work!!!

[Trteamer]

If there were more room on the tagline I would have added "Thin Our Forests" and "Re-open Our Jeep Trails". LOL!

[Freedom4US]

Does anyone know what the Sierra Club is doing to stop immigration, which is the major cause of loss of habitat? They're doing nothing? How can that be? They're so concerned.

Funny you should ask that. Their main concern seems to be that desert habitat in southern california is being trashed by illegals migrating north through Joshua Tree or thereabouts. Once you understand they hate themselves, but love "wilderness" a lot more than *you*, it starts to make sense. Never mind people are dying by the scores trying to get here to the US, they are worried about the desert.

These folks are essentially marxists - a lot of them anyway. A logically consistent Sierra Club would be screaming for the military along the border, along with deportation, etc. Not too many hunt or fish or camp in any recognizable fashion. Think about it - and you know why "conservation" isn't part of the vocabulary anymore.