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Oregon Road Conditions & Cams Advertisement Email Story to a Friend July 19, 2005 Barricade fails to halt work at Galice-area timber sale By PARIS ACHEN Mail Tribune Work at the Hobson timber sale near Galice continued on schedule Monday after a log barricade built on a road by protesters was dismantled, U.S. Forest Service officials said. A Forest Service officer and loggers used a skidder Sunday to push the logs to the side of the road. "Logging was never impacted because loggers took the weekend off," said Forest Service spokesman Tom Lavagnino. About 40 activists constructed the barricade — made to resemble a cabin — this past weekend in the middle of Road 2411, the only access to the sale in the Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest, said Laurel Sutherlin, a spokeswoman for the protesters. One protester was cited for interfering with an agricultural operation, a Class A misdemeanor. Advertisement "This is public land meant to be held in trust for future generations," Sutherlin said. "When we see public agencies selling it off to corporations for short-term profit, people get upset and feel it’s a crisis situation." The sale includes 7.3 million board feet on 577 acres of late successional reserve burned by the 2002 Biscuit fire. Late-successional reserve includes trees 40 to 80 years old with certain characteristics such as a full canopy. A tree sitter remains in one corner of the sale held up in the treetops by a network of ropes, Lavagnino said. "If they fall a tree it could hit another rope and endanger the tree sitter," he said. "We are prioritizing that area for last." Salvage logging on the 500,000 acres in the Biscuit fire has been at the center of a debate between conservationists and the Bush administration about what to do with the acreage of national forests burned every year by wildfires. The Forest Service maintains salvage logging is a way to provide jobs and wood for the country and pay for reforestation. Conservationists say burned forests should be left alone to regenerate and provide plant and animal habitat. Mail Tribune Home | Local News | Sports | Business | Obituaries | Life | Opinion AP News | Archives | Site Map | Community | Classified Copyright © 1997-2006 Mail Tribune, Inc. All rights reserved. Privacy Policy | Terms & Conditions | Website Feedback www.bingo.com Home Security Systems Trunks, Footlocker Custom Build Computers Discount Hotel Reservations online casinos news Ashley Furniture HomeStore Send Flowers Southern Oregon Loans California Casinos GMAT Prep Windermere Van Vleet Sports Equipment Online Casino Reviews Online Bingo Entertainment Guide Online Casino Fundraisers Sudoku Online Casinos Canada Online Pharmacy Advertisement s