The Forest Service is proposing logging and vegetation removal across 235,000 acres of the Los Padres National Forest. The project would allow cutting of large live and dead trees as well as removal of native shrubs, all using heavy equipment and chainsaws.
The project is likely the largest to ever be proposed for the Los Padres National Forest as it includes 48,000 acres of logging and other vegetation removal across several areas designated as “forest health treatment units” in addition to 186,000 acres of tree and shrub removal along roads, trails, and in many remote parts of the national forest. If approved, the project would allow the same activities the agency is planning on Pine Mountain—activities that were opposed by over 16,000 people, including tribal groups, elected officials, organizations, and businesses across the region—at an enormous scale.
Approximately 35,000 acres of lands that would receive special wilderness or scenic area protections with passage of the Central Coast Heritage Protection Act are included in the Forest Service's massive proposal.
The project would allow the use of heavy equipment to log live and dead trees up to two feet in diameter across many forested areas, and larger trees with no diameter limit could be removed across the 186,000 acres of vaguely described “fuel break and defense zones.” If the project moves forward and receives approval from the agency, damaging timber harvest and chaparral removal activities could take place from the summit of Mt. Pinos (Iwihinmu) to Figueroa Mountain to Big Sur without any further site-specific environmental analysis or public notice.
Visit our interactive map to see the many areas across the Los Padres National Forest threatened by this dangerous proposal.
Urge the Forest Service to Change Course on Massive Logging and Chaparral Removal Project
Urge the Forest Service to Change Course on Massive Logging and Chaparral Removal Project
The Forest Service is proposing logging and vegetation removal across 235,000 acres of the Los Padres National Forest. The project would allow cutting of large live and dead trees as well as removal of native shrubs, all using heavy equipment and chainsaws.
The project is likely the largest to ever be proposed for the Los Padres National Forest as it includes 48,000 acres of logging and other vegetation removal across several areas designated as “forest health treatment units” in addition to 186,000 acres of tree and shrub removal along roads, trails, and in many remote parts of the national forest. If approved, the project would allow the same activities the agency is planning on Pine Mountain—activities that were opposed by over 16,000 people, including tribal groups, elected officials, organizations, and businesses across the region—at an enormous scale.
Approximately 35,000 acres of lands that would receive special wilderness or scenic area protections with passage of the Central Coast Heritage Protection Act are included in the Forest Service's massive proposal.
The project would allow the use of heavy equipment to log live and dead trees up to two feet in diameter across many forested areas, and larger trees with no diameter limit could be removed across the 186,000 acres of vaguely described “fuel break and defense zones.” If the project moves forward and receives approval from the agency, damaging timber harvest and chaparral removal activities could take place from the summit of Mt. Pinos (Iwihinmu) to Figueroa Mountain to Big Sur without any further site-specific environmental analysis or public notice.
Visit our interactive map to see the many areas across the Los Padres National Forest threatened by this dangerous proposal.