By Olivia Rose
Final decision issued for Thomas Bay Timber Sale
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March 7, 2024
Alternative 3 proposed young-growth timber harvest on approximately 561 acres, with 519 acres harvested using two-aged management, and 42 acres harvested with uneven-aged management, resulting in about 12.6 MMBF of timber.
The USDA Forest Service Petersburg Ranger District announced the final decision for the Thomas Bay Young-Growth Timber Sale on Feb. 22.
With the specific goal of the timber industry's transition away from logging old growth to harvesting young-growth timber, the Forest Service weighed the regulations, strategies, public input and environmental considerations and selected a plan that will allow harvest of roughly 561 acres of young-growth forest -amounting to about 12.6 million board feet of timber on National Forest System lands at Thomas Bay.
The decision also approves 6.8 miles of temporary...
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