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 (646k).

 

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.

"Case Closed:
Public Motorized Trespass and Administrative Activity on Closed Roads in the Upper Swan, Lower Swan, and Noisy Face Geographic Units." (124K pdf report, 108K pdf chart)

"Watersheds at Risk:
Roads Threaten Bull Trout on the Bitterroot, Flathead and Lolo National Forests".(50K pdf). "Watersheds at Risk Summary Table." (16K pdf table)

"Off the Charts:
Roads Outnumber Streams in Developed Flathead Watersheds." (39K pdf).
"Excel Workbook companion to Off the Charts report."
(44K Excel Workbook).

Snowmobiling's
Endless Winter:
Facilitating Physical Access also Extends the Snowmobiing Season, Resulting in Harm to Wildlife Security, Vegetation, Soils and Water. (612K pdf)

Swan View's News,
Spring/Summer 2002: "Reining in Snowmobiles and ORVS" (830K pdf)

"Road Decommissioning:
Why Culverts are removed and How" (940k pdf)

"Jessup Mill Pond History"
(540k pdf)

Special Report:
Hate, Wise Use and the Militia (300k pdf)

Counting Culverts (pdf)

Text, Lies & Photos (pdf)

Gate-Crashing (pdf)