Six photos and seven paragraphs demonstrating the choice between streambed restoration or streambed devastation
—by Keith Hammer.
From Swan View’s News, Fall 2001
Fall-2001.pdf
Road Closure Gates Cannot Effectively Eliminate Trespass
For more than a decade, land and wildlife management agencies have recognized that gates are largely ineffective in stopping motorized use of forest roads to provide wildlife security. In spite of concerted attempts to make gates effectively eliminate trespass by the public, a recent survey of Forest Supervisors in the Northern Continental Divide Grizzly Bear Ecosystem shows continued widespread failure.
A short history of sawmills and other industry along Mill Creek in the Flathead Valley, including the town of Jessup
—By Keith Hammer and Debbie Sanders. Republished October 2001.
An Assessment of Integrated Road and Culvert Management on the Flathead National Forest
—A 14-page report by Keith Hammer. December 2000.
A one-page, poster-format photographic summary of Forest Service misrepresentations of the Bitterroot’s historic ponderosa pine forests.
U. S. Forest Service Misrepresenting the Historic Condition of Western Forests and the Effects of Fire Suppression and Logging.
An 8-page report by Keith Hammer. August 2000, revised December 2001. This report is available in pdf format (646k) and the photos it utilizes are also available individually in high-resolution jpeg format.
Ponderosa-Poster-Child.pdf
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).
PPine-Poster.pdf
Lick Creek Poster (820k high res version): “USFS Poster: 88 Years of Change in Ponderosa Pine Forest.”
High resolution images of pertinent Forest Service photos can be viewed or downloaded by viewing the full article:
Benefits to the Watershed and Its Inhabitants
—By Keith Hammer - 1994
This article examines the benefits derived from obliterating roads already constructed in our National Forests. Many National Forests, including the Flathead, have come to recognize the need to obliterate many roads in order to restore watershed health and to re-secure habitat for the many species which live there. Scientific research, pilot programs and a growing public awareness are rapidly demonstrating the need to obliterate roads rather than simply gating them to motorized travel.
USFS photo of culvert removal in Big Creek.
